RE: st: add up variable / quantile

["Scharnigg, Stan (Stud. SBE)" <s.scharnigg@student.maastrichtuniversity.nl>]

I still have a problem with this.

My goal is to identify the top quantile for each years (total 6 years) in different variables

What I did so far:
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gen year=year(newdate) // create years instead of normal dates
egen gross_performance_years=total(gross_performance), by(accountID year) // create gross_performance per year
egen tag_year=tag(RekeningID year) // tag a 1 for each year per accountID
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this all works fine, however now I want to create the top quantile variable for each year. So i did the following:

gen topq_2000=gross_performance_years >=r(p75) & year==y(2000), however this doesn't work. I only get "0" as value.

I also tried this:

generate topq_2000 = 0
replace topq_2000 = 1 if gross_performance_year >=r(p75) & tag_year==1 & year==2002

but without succes
Does anybody has some tips how I can do this? 

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Van: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] namens Nick Cox [njcoxstata@gmail.com]
Verzonden: dinsdag 29 maart 2011 12:44
Aan: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Onderwerp: Re: st: add up variable / quantile

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Scharnigg, Stan (Stud. SBE)
<s.scharnigg@student.maastrichtuniversity.nl> wrote:
> Look at the help for -egen-. You want
>
> egen total_gross = total(gross), by(accountID)
> -----------
>
> Thank you, but I have some additional questions:
>
> A. I have data for 6 years (72 months). What if I want to add up the gross_performance for e.g the first 12 months. So, I guess I need to
> create different variables for different time periods, but I am not sure how to do that. One extensive possibility might be that I create a different dataset
> for every period, but I guess there might also be another solution
>
> accountID; gross_performance; date
> 1                -.1                              jan_00
> 1                 .2                              febr_00
> 3                 .1                              jan_00
> 3                 .1                              febr_00

You can specify -if- on an -egen- command. Different summaries will in
general require new variables (but not new datasets).

> B. If I use egen total_gross = total(gross_performance), by(accountID) I get many duplicate values. In some cases I have
> 72 duplicate values. What is the best way to delete the duplicate values, so that they won't show up if I do some tests. I don't
> think that renaming them to "0" is an option then.

You can use

egen tag = tag(accountID)

and then add

... if tag

to commands to ensure that each summary is used once only. You cannot
delete (in Stata -drop-) without losing other information.

Alternatively, -collapse- will yield a reduced dataset with one
observation for each account.

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