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st: Randomly picking observations based on a certain condition
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Nikhil Srivastava <[email protected]>
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st: Randomly picking observations based on a certain condition
Date
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:17:30 -0700
Hi,
I have a dataset at the household level which contains the expenditure
details of a sample of households. The dataset also records the number
of adults within each household. I have divided this dataset into 5
quintiles based on the level of expenditure. Now I need to randomly
select a set of observations within each quintile so that the sum of
the adults for those observations comes to 100. Could somebody please
help me in writing a code for this part?
I would really appreciate any help in this regard. Thanks
Regards,
Nikhil Srivastava
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