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Re: st: How to divide the sample into quintiles?
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John Ataguba <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to divide the sample into quintiles?
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:42:16 +0000 (GMT)
Hi Stevie,
Basically you need to create the net expenditure variable (maybe per capita!). Let us assume it is called 'netexpend'
The command will be:
xtile netexpend [aw=weight], nq(5)
Hope this helps.
Jon
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From: Stevie Kourama <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wed, 10 March, 2010 14:57:50
Subject: st: How to divide the sample into quintiles?
expenditure ( which proxies the income of the household) visits to
health facilities; current level of education, residence (rural and
urban) and I would like to divide the sample into quintiles (groups of
20%), using household net expenditure,
Please assist the appropriate stata commands to execute the above and
thanks in advance
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Stevie Kourama
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Stevie Kourama
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