st: Re: Continous to categorical variable

["Sergiy Radyakin" <Radyakin@aoek.uni-hannover.de>]

See help egen
You need the option -cut-

Regards, Sergiy



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mentzakis, Emmanouil" <e.mentzakis@abdn.ac.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 5:42 PM
Subject: st: Continous to categorical variable



> Dear all, 
> I have a continous variable (i.e. income) and I would like to transform
> it into a categorical one (e.g 5 categories/levels or more). 
> I would like to ask if there is any way that I can ask stata to create
> this variable deciding the appropriate cut-off points automatically so
> that the categories follow aproximately a normal distrubution or they
> are of equal size.
>
> Thank you in advance 
> Regards
> Manos 
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