I'm analyzing the association between a public policy of interest and various indicators of job quality among a sample of adults who transition from unemployment to employment from one month to the next. One of the indicators of interest is earnings. I lack pre-job loss earnings information; so I thought I would compare the distance between a respondent's current wage, and the median wage of the industry and occupation in which they're employed. To start, I thought I would compute the ratio between the current wage and the industry and occupation median. How would I do that in Stata? I generated a sample dataset to give a sense of what I have, and what I'm aiming for. Thank you so much for any help.
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* Example generated by -dataex-. For more info, type help dataex clear input byte personid float(ind wage) byte ratio 1 2 7.25 . 2 1 10 . 3 3 12.5 . 4 5 15 . 5 7 7.25 . 6 7 20 . 7 8 7.25 . 8 2 10 . 9 12 12.5 . 10 14 15 . 11 14 7.25 . 12 6 20 . 13 6 7.25 . 14 6 20 . end
