Buzz Burhans
> >Watch two details among many others.
> >
> > > bysort Household: egen Dependants = count( REL) if REL==3
> >
> >Note that this kind of statement _excludes_ observations
> >for which REL != 3. This is not what you want _if_ the
> >intention is to see whether any other members of the family
> >have REL equal to 3.
>
> Coupled with the statement that followed (bysort Household: egen
> Dependants2 = mean( Dependants))
> I think it did assign a count for whether or not there
> were dependants
> within the household to the entire household; though I am
> certain there are
> better ways to do that, but I am not as adept as you at
> coming up with
> them.
True. But you can get there in one with
egen Dependants = sum(rel==3), by(household)
or equally
bysort Dependants : egen Dependants = sum(rel==3)
(What Stata does with these two is not quite
the same, but that's not an issue here.)
> It seemed that despite several tries from others
> Rodrigo was still
> without what he needed so I gave it a try. Appears he still
> doesn't have
> the last reassignment, but I think I am not certain for the
> criteria he wants for it.
Agreed (and thanks for the nice comments).
Nick
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