--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Christian Weiß wrote:
> Variable size contains the marketcap of about 2000 firms
> from 11 countries (grouping var country).
>
> I would like to keep only the 100 biggest firms (by
> marketcap) from each country, and delete the residual
> observations.
gen negsize = -size
bys country (negsize) : keep if _n < 101
drop negsize
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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