Re: st: splitting the dataset into percentiles by groups

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

I think what you need is the -xtile- command. In Stata, type -help 
xtile- to find out more.

Best wishes

Roger


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On 20/07/2012 14:43, Sebastian Witt wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> i am completely new to stata and have a question regarding the
> splitting of my dataset into percentiles.
>
> I am examining the impact of migration on the wage distribution and am
> considering variation over time
> and regions (provinces). so for each province for each year i need the
> different percentiles of wages. does anyone
> know how to do this without splitting up the dataset in excel prior to
> stata? I have been trying with the
> -centile- function but i dont know how to tell stata to do that for
> every year and every province and additionaly
> to expand this to the control variables aswell.
>
> thanks a lot!!!!
>
> seb
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