Re: st: Creating a indicator of the number of job with highest wage

["Kelvin Foo" <kelvinski@gmail.com>]

Hi,

reshape long w_job, i(ID) j(jobnum)
gsort id -w_job
by id: gen Number_job=jobnum[1]
reshape wide w_job, i(ID) j(jobnum)

Hope this helps,
Kelvin.


On 2/5/07, Hui Wang <jackie_stata@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> I have a dataset. Each individual can at most have 4 jobs (job1-job4). For
> each individual I know the hourly wage for each job (w_job1-w_job4). I
> wonder how I can creat a variable indicating that which job has the highest
> wage. Refer to the following example. The variable I want to creat is the
> 'Number_job'
>
> ID w_job1 w_job2 w_job3 w_job4 Number_job
> 1  10        100      0          0         2
> 2  120      30        10        0         1
> 3  20        90        80        70       2
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jackie
>
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