Home » Topics » Wealth Index » Decile Share Thru Wealth Index Factor (stata)
 Decile Share Thru Wealth Index Factor (stata) [message #2351] |
Sat, 07 June 2014 09:10  |
smileyc
Messages: 14
Registered: June 2014
|
Member |
|
|
Hi,
I would like to seek help in generating wealth index by deciles.
I am using xtile decile [weight=weight]=hv271, nq(10) but I think this is not the write syntax in stata
Hope to hear from you.
Thanks!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Decile Share Thru Wealth Index Factor (stata) [message #2357 is a reply to message #2355] |
Sat, 07 June 2014 22:57  |
smileyc
Messages: 14
Registered: June 2014
|
Member |
|
|
Hello,
Thank you for taking time to help me. I am trying to get the share of the richest 10% of the schooling years.
I first tried to compare the wealth index (hv270) with the variable I created "xtile quint [weight=weight] = hv271, nq(5)"
to check if I can generate decile share using hv271 but the results of hv270 is not similar with the results of the quint variable.
Thanks again.
[Updated on: Sat, 07 June 2014 23:00] Report message to a moderator |
|
|
|
| Re: Decile Share Thru Wealth Index Factor (stata) [message #2358 is a reply to message #2357] |
Sun, 08 June 2014 16:09 |
Reduced-For(u)m
Messages: 292
Registered: March 2013
|
Senior Member |
|
|
Hmmmm... so looking through the 2011 Bangladesh report (I don't know which country you are looking at, but it is likely similar), I see this:
Once the index is computed, national-level wealth quintiles (from lowest to highest) are obtained by
assigning the household score to each de jure household member, ranking each person in the population by
his or her score, and then dividing the ranking into five equal categories, each comprising 20 percent of the
population.
Which indicates to me that perhaps you need to implicitly weight by household size to back out the proper wealth quintiles (because each household member gets the household score, and then all people surveyed are ordered to find the quintiles instead of each household surveyed). So you might try using the household member recode to do this breakdown - that would also increase the probability you are using the same weights as the DHS people - I don't know for sure, but it sounds like they do this using the individual household member list, and not the household schedule (which is where the HV variables come from).
Let me know if that works.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Goto Forum:
Current Time: Wed May 28 10:40:57 Coordinated Universal Time 2025
|
The DHS Program User Forum
Members
Search
Help
Register
Login
Home
