st: Re: How to generate quantile categories by group/varlist?

[Alika Tuwo <alika.tuwo@gmail.com>]

Hi there,

I'm working on a national survey data and I'm trying to group
expenditure per capita according to provincial (NOT national)
quantiles.

prov - code for province (33 unique values)
ecp - expenditure per capita
weind - individual weight


If I were to group 'epc' by national quintiles I would use the command:

 xtile q_epc = epc [fweight = weind], nquantiles(5)

But what if I would like to generate quantile groups for each
province? Is there any quick way to do this?  The 'by' option wouldn't
work with 'xtile'. So far I've had to work on each province
separately. Thanks in advance for the help.


Best regards,

Alika
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