Works great, thanks a lot!
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Maarten buis<[email protected]> wrote:
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> --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Christian Weiß wrote:
>> Variable size contains the marketcap of about 2000 firms
>> from 11 countries (grouping var country).
>>
>> I would like to keep only the 100 biggest firms (by
>> marketcap) from each country, and delete the residual
>> observations.
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> gen negsize = -size
> bys country (negsize) : keep if _n < 101
> drop negsize
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> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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