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Re: st: Grouping income variables- RECODE COMMAND


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Grouping income variables- RECODE COMMAND
Date   Sat, 1 Feb 2014 19:17:16 +0000

The numeric values of -hinctnt- don't exceed 99. They are evidently
numeric codes, not incomes. So, why you are surprised at your results?
You have to -recode- your data before you can classify them. And that
means the -recode- command.
Nick
[email protected]


On 1 February 2014 18:14, Antonio Rodriguez Andres
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
> .
>
> -----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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