Specific percentiles

[FitzGerald Blindman]

Hi!

I want to look at specific percentiles of the values of certain variable I have in my dataset (in my case is the 20 and the 80). How can I do it? I usually used "sum var1, detail" but it isn't helpful for the percentiles I want.

Thanks,

FitzGerlad

[Luca Calianno]

You can use the command pctile (help pctile)
This command is also inside egen if you want to create a variable equal to a specific percentile