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| From | "Antonio Rodriguez Andres" <Antonio.Andres@emu.edu.tr> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: Grouping income variables- RECODE COMMAND |
| Date | Sat, 1 Feb 2014 20:14:53 +0200 |
Here you can see the basic description of the income variable
tab hinctnt
Household's |
total net |
income, all |
sources | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
J | 1,663 4.38 4.38
R | 1,561 4.11 8.49
C | 2,262 5.96 14.45
M | 3,676 9.68 24.13
F | 3,545 9.34 33.47
S | 3,293 8.67 42.15
K | 3,010 7.93 50.08
P | 2,871 7.56 57.64
D | 4,707 12.40 70.04
H | 2,058 5.42 75.46
U | 644 1.70 77.15
N | 428 1.13 78.28
Refusal | 4,525 11.92 90.20
Don't know | 3,540 9.32 99.53
No answer | 180 0.47 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 37,963 100.00
sum hinctnt, d
Household's total net income, all sources
-------------------------------------------------------------
Percentiles Smallest
1% 1 1
5% 2 1
10% 3 1 Obs 37963
25% 5 1 Sum of Wgt. 37963
50% 7 Mean 22.67271
Largest Std. Dev. 31.57352
75% 10 99
90% 77 99 Variance 996.8872
95% 88 99 Skewness 1.378759
99% 88 99 Kurtosis 2.984444
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 7:52 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Grouping income variables- RECODE COMMAND
Your code shows you using the -recode()- function, which is quite different from the -recode- command. In Stata functions and commands are different!
I think that to comment helpfully we need to see more about your -hinctnt-, for example, the results of
. su hinctnt, detail
Your categories are not disjoint as (e.g.) the definitions [70, 120] and [120, 230] leave ambiguous what happens with 120. Alternatively, your notation here confuses the meaning of [ ] and ( ).
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com
On 1 February 2014 17:29, Antonio Rodriguez Andres <Antonio.Andres@emu.edu.tr> wrote:
> Dear Stata users,
>
> I have to group the income variable in different intervals. In the
> original dataset, the household income variable is grouped İnto 12
> categories
>
> J <40
> R [40,70]
> C [70, 120]
> M [120, 230]
> F [230, 350]
> S
> K
> P
> D
> H
> U [1730, 2310)
> N > 2310
>
> I want to group J and R categories <70 Euros, and create dummy
> variables for all income groups. That is the Stata ouput. I used the
> recode command But it does not work
>
> gen hinc_gr=recode(hinctnt, 70, 120, 230, 350, 460, 580, 690, 1150,
> 1730,
> 2310)
> (13282 missing values generated)
>
> . tab hinc_gr
>
> hinc_gr | Freq. Percent Cum.
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> 70 | 29,718 100.00 100.00
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> Total | 29,718 100.00
>
> Regards
>
> Antonio
>
>
>
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