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Re: st: upper quartile selection for multiple groups
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: upper quartile selection for multiple groups
Date
Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:31:14 +0200
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Maria Sokolova wrote:
> I have big (very big) panel data, for which I need to create dummies
> representing the belonging to the top 5% (or 10%) per each categorie.
> I have too high number of categories (over 1000) to do it manually.
*------------------ begin example ------------------
sysuse nlsw88, clear
bys race : egen p80 = pctile(wage), p(80)
gen highwage = wage > p80 if wage < .
tab race highwage, row
*------------------- end example -------------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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