--- "Araujo, Edson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks! The problem is that the income quintiles has the same
> proportion of the population, does not reflects the distribution of
> income (since the groups are the same). this does not show the
> concentration of income.
>
> In fact my doubt is if how I can divide de income in 5 groups and
> then associate the share of the population in each income group
> (guess this will give to me a histogram/normal curve very skewed).
you can cut a variable up into 5 (or more or less) parts using the
-cut- function in -egen-, see: -help egen-.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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