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RE: st: Grouping income variables- RECODE COMMAND


From   "Antonio Rodriguez Andres" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 7:52 PM
To: [email protected]
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
[email protected]


On 1 February 2014 17:29, Antonio Rodriguez Andres <[email protected]> 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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