Hi.
I have a dataset where I am trying to match parents with their
children. The data is structured as follows:
Person Who is your parent? Family ID
1 Head of Household - 1
2 Spouse of household head - 1
3 Male adult child of head/spouse 1, 2 2
4 Female adult child of head/spouse 1, 2 3
5 Underage child of head/spouse 1, 2 1
6 Daughter-in-law of head/spouse - 2
7 Grandchild of head/spouse 3, 5 2
8 Grandchild of head/spouse -, 4 3
I want to generate unique family IDs, where family is defined as
parent-child, not grandparents, etc.
Family 1: 1, 2, 5
Family 2: 3, 6, 7
Family 3: 4, 8
But since I am concerned about children, I identify the families by
children who are younger than 21, hence the family ID of family 1 does not
include their adult children.
The only way it lists the parent-child relationship is by the line number
of the person. I am able to correctly match head and spouse with their
children, but in the above structure, how do I generate a unique ID for
family? The only way I seem to be able to do it confuses families 2 & 3.
Thank you for your help!
Jules Elkins
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