Creating a Group Variable

[Chirag Yadav]

I want to create groups for propensity score matching. If I want to classify the data into different age groups, I can create a new variable with all zeroes and give the values I want to each age group using replace. But is there a way to use egen along with group to do that?

I tried egen age_1 = group(age>=17 & age<=20) but this seems to be incorrect.

[William Lisowski]

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