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st: How to caculate the 90th percentile and 50th percentile of the wage distribution in my data set using stata?
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st: How to caculate the 90th percentile and 50th percentile of the wage distribution in my data set using stata? 
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Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:53:28 +0800 (CST) 
Hi everyone, Did someone know how to generate the 90th percentile and 50th 
percentile of the wage distribution?
I am working on a paper about the wage inequality of China.  I read some paper 
that the inequality is caculated based on the percentile wage differences, I 
want to carry out my researh as follows:
The analysis revolves around two empirical models in which the respective 
dependent
variables are specified as the difference of the log 2001 wage between:
(i) the most skilled (measured by the 90th percentile of the wage distribution) 
and the least skilled
(measured by the 10th percentile of the wage distribution);
(ii) The most and ‘medium’skilled worker (measured by the 50th percentile of the 
wage distribution);
Did someone know how to generate the 90th percentile and 50th percentile of the 
wage distribution?
thank you very much!
Best Regards
Zhiqiang Zhang
Nankai University
[email protected]
[email protected]
      
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