Re: st: How to graph

[Kisil ktl <kisilktl@gmail.com>]

Thank you for your reply Carlos. Sorry for being late to respond,
since I don't have stata on my own computer.
I applied what you suggested, however this is not the case I actually
want to graph .
I want to have percentiles (10th, 20th,..,90th) ordered on the x-axis
and difference of the log wage in 2000 from the log wage in 2005 for
the respective percentile on the y-axis, I'm not interested in the
years between 2000 and 2005.

Greetings
Kisil


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Carlos Avellaneda Suárez
<carlos.avellaneda8@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kisil,
> One solution is to collapse your dataset. Here is an example you can
> reproduce in a do-file:
> *****Begin Example*****
> webuse nlswork
> preserve
> collapse (p10) p10=ln_wage (p20) p20=ln_wage ///
> (p30) p30=ln_wage (p40) p40=ln_wage (p50) p50=ln_wage ///
> (p60) p60=ln_wage (p70) p70=ln_wage (p80) p80=ln_wage ///
> (p90) p90=ln_wage , by(year)
> tsset year
> tsline p*
> restore
> *****End*****
> By the way, why would you estimate a percent change in a log variable?
> Remember that the first difference of the logarithm of a variable
> approximates to the percentage change of the unaltered variable. With
> the previous example, you just have to generate new variables of the
> first difference of each percentile.
> Hope this helps.
> Carlos
>
> 2014-03-18 13:41 GMT-05:00 Kisil ktl <kisilktl@gmail.com>:
>> Dear statalist,
>>
>> I work on a data set that has log wage information of workers through six years.
>> In order to show how log wage at different percentiles changed between
>> the years 2000 and 2005, I want to make a graph that has
>> 10th,20th,..,90th percentiles on the x-axis and corresponding
>> percentage log wage changes on the y-axis.
>> For example, the graph should show how many percent did the log wage
>> of a worker at 90th or 10th percentile of the wage distribution change
>> between 2000 and 2005.
>> egen rank = rank(wage)
>> This command computes the percentile ranks of workers with respect to
>> their log wages, but I could not do the rest of it. How can I make
>> this kind of a graph?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Kisil
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