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st: RE: assigning characteristics of one person to multiple observations by group |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:48:32 -0500 |
You can do the following:
gen age_hh_tmp = AGE if PARENT == "HH"
bysort id: egen age_hh = mean(age_hh_tmp)
Jean Salvati
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Scott Cunningham
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: assigning characteristics of one person to
> multiple observations by group
>
> I have the following:
>
> ID Name PARENT AGE
> 1 Bryan HH
> 45
> 1 WIll son
> 10
> 1 Lucy mom 30
> 2 Scott HH
> 30
> 2 Paige mom 31
> 2 Miles son
> 4
>
> I need to create a variable ("age_HH") which will equal the
> age of the head of household ("HH"). I then need to make
> everyone of the same family ("ID") have that value. Is it
> sufficient to do the
> following:
>
> . bysort id: gen age_hh=age if parent==hh
>
>
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