st: Quintiles

[Leonardo Jaime Gonzalez Allende <leonardo.gonzalez@ine.cl>]

Hi Stata Users,

I'm trying to divide a sample of households (expanded) into quintiles using the xtile command. I want to create 5 groups with the exactly same quantity of population, but using the xtitle command, the quantity of households in each quintil is very slightly different to 20% when the number of observations isn't exactly dividable by 5.

I'm using:
xtile Quintiles [aw= weight] =  incomes, nq(5)

Do you know any command to divide the population (sample expanded) into 5 groups of exactly same weight? The 4 households in the cut points should be dividing into two quintiles?

Thanks so much and best regards,

Leonardo González

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