peter harper:
One measure of dispersion of years of education by workplace would be
. egen sde=sd(educ), by(workplace)
but if you want the mean absolute difference (AD), you can code:
. egen ej=mean(educ), by(workplace)
. gen ad=abs(educ-ej)
. egen ei=mean(ad), by(workplace)
for example.
On 5/15/06, peter harper <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Statalist
I am working on a cross-section dataset, with different firms and different individuals. How would one generate a variable which would provide a dispersion of workplace years of education: absolute mean diff. across workers based on mean worker years of education, say, Ei.
I already have a variable for mean workplace years of education called Ej: which is based on percentage of the workforce in each of the k occupations times average years of education for that occupation from worker respondents.
Many Thanks in advance
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