Dear Eva,
I can not find my posted example on the Internet, so I thought the mail did not reach you and your colleagues.
How can I see my question in the Internet? I mean how can I see a website like:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-10/msg00807.html
When entered my name and the keyword stata or peer in google, I have found nothing...
Markus
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> Datum: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:41:49 +0100
> Von: "Eva Poen" <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: benchmarking + determine the peers
> You posted exactly the same question on Saturday, and I replied. If
> you still have problems, tells us where exactly.
>
> Eva
>
>
> 2008/9/30 Bastian Steingros <[email protected]>:
> > Dear Stata users,
> >
> > I am searching a function in stata to program peer groups.
> > In my benchmarking study about American industries I want to compare
> companies by its sales, earnings etc.
> > I use the three digit industry code to classify the industries
> (sic-codes). The peer group must be within the same industry.
> > Here, the purpose is to compute the mean or median of the sales and to
> see if the respective firm's performance is below or above the mean or the
> median.
> >
> > But, the peer group of firm X contains all the companies with the same
> digit code but *not* firm X (otherwise I would compare X with itself)
> >
> > To conclude:
> >
> > year sic-code firm sales mean median
> > 1990 333 X 10 ? ?
> > 1990 333 Y 20 ? ?
> > 1990 333 Z 30 ? ?
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > 1990 334 A 21 ? ?
> > 1990 334 B 5 ? ?
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > 1991 etc. ...
> >
> > so, in 1990
> > the peer group mean/median for X must contain (20+30) but not 10
> > the peer group mean/median for Y must contain (10+30) but not 20
> > the peer group mean/median for Z must contain (10+20) but not 30
> > and so on...
> >
> > is there a way to program is stata something like:
> >
> > by year sic-code, sort: egen median/mean *without the sales of the firm
> X / firm Y etc.*
> >
> > (Please note, it is basically more important for me to obtain the
> *median* than the mean peer group due to the outlier problem of the mean
> function.)
> >
> > So, please help me find a solution to the median peer group first.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance!
> >
> > Bastian
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