On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:24:12 +0100 (BST) [email protected] wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> in the survey I am using the head of household gives info about every member
> of the household. I have created a variable via egen that accounts for the
> number of children within the family. How do "fill in" for the rest of the
> family, i.e. family 3 has 1 child and I want observation 5 and 6 to be equal
> to 1, for example.
>
> family children
> 1. 1 0
>
> 2. 2 0
> 3. 2 0
> 4. 2 0
>
> 5. 3 1
> 6. 3 0
>
> 7. 4 0
> 8. 4 2
>
how about
bysort family: egen numkids = max(children)
combined with appropriate checking of what happens in cases where there
are missing values on relevant variables
Stephen
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