Edson,
It sounds as if you want to separate things: Quintile shares vs. % of pop
within a given income bracket or range.
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--- Edson wrote:
> To calculate income groups (quintile/percentile) if you use the
> command xtile quintile=totconsump, nq(5) stata divides the groups
> according to the population size (each quintile will have 20% of the
> population). What Is the best way to determine the income
> distribution across the sample population (percentage of population
> inside each level of income - like the X% have income between
> $0 - $1500)?
I am not sure how the first and the second part of your question are
related. If you created a variable using -xtile-, representing
quitiles, than your first quitile will contain 20%, the second 20%,
etc. There is no need to determine these proportions, you have created
them to be 20%. (The precise numbers may differ very slightly when the
number of observations isn't exactly divisable by 5, but that should
not worry you.)
Say you have a different income variable called income, than you can
type -tab income-.
Maarten
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