Greetings, all.
I'm using 2000 Census data for individuals, with
family and household information appended to each
individual record. I'm running Stata/SE 8.2.
I am attempting to use Nick Cox's method of assigning
a source household member's value of a variable to
others in a household using an explicit subscript to
refer to the source person (see "st: RE: Creating a
new variable using household level data" dated 13 Feb
2005 at
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-02/msg00387.html).
In my case, I wish to assign "famunit" of the
household head (related=101) to the head's unmarried
partner (related=1114). I couldn't figure out how to
refer to the HH head's observation directly in an
explicit subscript, so I created an indicator
variable "HHhead" for the person's status as HH head:
. gen byte HHhead=(related==101)
. gen byte famunt2=famunit
. by serial: replace famunt2=famunit[HHhead]
(103 real changes made, 103 to missing)
I only want to change the value of famunit for
unrelated partners, but the statement -replace
famunt2=famunit[HHhead] if related=1114- yields
"invalid syntax r(198);"
What am I doing wrong? I know at least one problem is
my improper use of the explicit subscript, but I can't
see my mistake.
Incorrect output is below.
Thanks for your help,
Deb Garvey
.l serial pernum related HHhead famu*, nol
+---------------------------------------------------------+
> serial pernum related HHhead famunit
> famunt2
>
---------------------------------------------------------
> 1. 2408215 1 101 1 1
> 1
> 2. 2408215 2 201 0 1
> .
> 3. 2408216 1 101 1 1
> 1
> 4. 2408216 2 201 0 1
> .
> 5. 2408216 3 901 0 1
> .
>
---------------------------------------------------------
> 6. 2408217 1 101 1 1
> 1
> 7. 2408217 2 201 0 1
> .
> 8. 2408217 3 301 0 1
> .
> 9. 2408217 4 301 0 1
> .
> 10. 2408217 5 301 0 1
> .
>
---------------------------------------------------------
> 11. 2408218 1 1301 0 1
> .
> 12. 2408219 1 101 1 1
> 1
> 13. 2408220 1 101 1 1
> 1
> 14. 2408221 1 101 1 1
> 1
> 15. 2408221 2 301 0 1
> .
>
---------------------------------------------------------
> 16. 2408221 3 1114 0 2
> .
> 17. 2408222 1 101 1 1
> 1
> 18. 2408222 2 301 0 1
> .
> 19. 2408222 3 301 0 1
> .
> 20. 2408233 1 101 1 1
> 1
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