Please use informative headings for your posts,
as requested in the FAQ and repeatedly on this list.
The first non-missing value in each household is
bysort hhid (indicode member) : gen firstnonmiss = indicode[1]
except that this will return missing if all values
in any household are missing.
so it sounds as if you want to impute like this
replace indicode = firstnonmiss if mi(indicode) & member == 1
I can't see that -collapse- could help here.
Nick
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Fanwell Kenala Bokosi
> I want to generate a code for the household industry. The
> household industry is the industry in which the household
> head is engaged in. However for some households where the
> industry code is missing for the household head, I want to
> assign the next non missing industry code as the for the household.
>
> My data looks like this
>
> hhid member indicode
> 1 1 1
> 1 2 2
> 1 3 3
> 2 1 .
> 2 2 4
> 2 3 4
> 3 1 .
> 3 2 .
> 3 3 1
>
> I used the collapse command to get the household industry but
> do not seem to find a command that can be combined with
> collapse to pick the first non missing indicode for the household.
>
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