Re: st: RE: how can I create deciles by group?

["Erasmo Giambona" <e.giambona@gmail.com>]

Hi Alexander,
Thanks very much. It was really what I needed.
Regards,
Erasmo

On 7/16/07, Alexander P�tz <puetza@uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> Hallo Erasmo,
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> You can try it by creating a local with all your years and then run the
> xtile in combination with the if command. That's the way I did it:
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> gen size_decile = .
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> levelsof yearvar, local(tempyear)
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> foreach i in `tempyear' {
> xtile decile_temp=size1 if yearvar==`i', nq(10)
> replace size_decile = decile_temp if missing(size_decile)
> drop decile_temp
> }
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> Regards,
> Alex
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Erasmo Giambona
> > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:25 PM
> > To: statalist
> > Subject: st: how can I create deciles by group?
> >
> > Dear Statalist,
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> > I need to create deciles for my dataset by year. I understand STATA
> > allows one to get deciles for the full data set (in my case I used:
> > xtile size_decile=size1, nq(10)), but I  really need to get my deciles
> > by year. I realize that the "by" group does not work with "xtile". Is
> > there any way to get the size deciles by year?
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> > I would appreciate any suggestions.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Erasmo
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