In addition to other answers, check out Ulrich Kohler's
-egen- function within -egenmore- on SSC.
Nick
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Erasmo Giambona
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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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