st: Re: dummies for percentiles

[baum <baum@bc.edu>]

--On Monday, August 12, 2002 2:33 -0400 Radu  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Thanks for the previous help.
> I have an income variable and I would like to create a set of dummies for
> whether the income is between certain percentiles (i.e inc10 for income
> b/w the 10th and 15th percentile and so on). I know that -centile-
> generates requested centiles, but I'm not sure how to put the results of
> this command into a list that can be used with the -egen cut- command.
No need to use egen, cut.

* create integer variable marking decile
xtile pct = income, n(10)
tab pct, gen(iq)

This will create dummies for the deciles of income. If you want every 5th 
percentile, use n(20), etc.

Kit



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