INCOME in Stata

[recycle4]

One more question. I want to break down the following data into percentages for <20,000 income, between 20,000 and 40,000 and then greater than 40,000. How do I do this?


type: numeric (double)

range: [-108327.8,6520261] units: .01
unique values: 21044 missing .: 1/41554

mean: 53922.2
std. dev: 83278.4

percentiles: 10% 25% 50% 75% 90%
8968.45 16731.9 31626 65086.9 119027

[Nick Cox]

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[recycle4]

How do I do that? I just did tabu INCOME and got those

[Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez]

You are expected to search the help files before posting to the forum. This could be easily achieved by using gen, replace and if qualifiers.

Here's a fast way:

​gen inc_category=irecode(income,20000,40000)
tab inc_category

Which you would have found using findit recode. Please read the FAQ, browse the Stata Help and the Statalist archives before posting.