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| From | Leonardo Jaime Gonzalez Allende <leonardo.gonzalez@ine.cl> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: Quintiles |
| Date | Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:55:02 -0400 |
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 * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/