st: Identify observations by occupation

[Oliver Jones <ojones@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de>]

Dear Stata-Listers,

I have a dataset containing the number of employed people
for 180 cities and 300 occupations.

Now I want to generate a variable that shows the ranking
of the occupations by the total number of people working
in that occupation.

I have managed to create this variable. But I bet there is
a more elegant and easier way to do it and I hope some one
here can show me how or tell me the appropriate command(s).

Here is what I have done ...

The data looks like this:

city  |  occupation  |  n
-----------------------------
001   |  nurse       |  1222
002   |  nurse       |   345
.     |   .          |     .
.     |   .          |     .
.     |   .          |     .
180   |  nurse       |    94
.............................
001   |  lawyer      |   308
002   |  lawyer      |    55
.     |   .          |     .
.     |   .          |     .
.     |   .          |     .
180   |  lawyer      |    15
.............................
001   |  teacher     |   930
.     |   .          |     .
.     |   .          |     .
.     |   .          |     .


bysort occupation: egen total_occupation = total(n)
bysort total_occupation: gen index = (_n == 1)
sort index total_je_beruf
bysort index: gen top_occupation = _N + 1 - _n
replace top_occupation = . if index == 0
sort top_occupation

* List the biggest 10 occupations
list occupation total_occupation top_occupation if top_occupation <= 10


Best Regards
Oliver Jones
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