First, please don't send email junk like .vcf to Statalist
as it messes up the archives and the digest.
Plain text only!
Second, these measures cannot be calculated without
some replication of income for each state, so how is
your data structured?
Nick
[email protected]
Lynda Zhang
> I have two variables INCOME and STATE, and would like to
> compute a variable that is a ratio of the 90th percentile
> income/10th percentile income for each state.
>
> For example, 90th percentile in MA is 60000 while 10th
> percentile is 10000. Then the ratio would be 6 for MA.
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