Reweight one income distribution to match another

[shem shen]

Income distribution in survey sample A has more low income holders than the income distribution in survey sample B. I want to reweight the income distribution in sample A to roughly match that in sample B. Is there a ready made Stata command for this? I know many commands can do reweighting on categorical covariates to balance two samples or to reweight one sample so that its mean on a continuous var matches the mean of the var in another sample, but what I want to do is to reweight one income distribution so that its income levels at various percentiles (or deciles) matches those in another distribution.
thank you.

[Stephen Jenkins]

ssc describe dfl

[shem shen]

ssc describe dfl

Thank you, Prof. Jenkins. However, dfl seems to only balance two samples based on a set of covariates. My intention is to reweight one income distribution so that its income levels at each percentile/decile match those of another income distribution. Are you suggesting that dfl can also be used for this purpose?

[Stephen Jenkins]

I don't know the answer. But ask yourself what sort of information (observable variables and/or model) one might need to undertake the exercise that you appear to want to do. If you were to explain to the Forum in more detail why you want to do what you say, you might get more helpful answers. (Also: look at the literature on calibration weighting. This uses an external reference distribution for "B", not a sample distribution, but maybe the problem is analogous?)