st: ordering records

["Ricardo Guimaraes" <ricardo.guimaraes@uni-bonn.de>]

I have the following panel data .



     | surmonth    iddom     i   sthome   kid_seq   age |
     |--------------------------------------------------|
  1. |        1   560036     1        1         .    57 |
  2. |        1   560036     2        2         .    51 |
  3. |        1   560036     3        3         1    27 |
  4. |        1   560036     4        3         1    16 |
  5. |        1   560036     5        3         1    13 |

"surmonth" is time; "iddom" identifies a family; "i" an 
individuo in the family;
"sthome" is the status in the family (1=head, 2=spouse; 
3=kids) and "age". kid_seq was my attempt
to create a order from the older to the younger kid.

Question:
How to create a variavel (let`s say, dep_seq) for each 
family ordering the kids from the older to the
younger.

sincerely,
Ricardo



Ricardo Guimaraes
Junior Researcher
Center for Development Research (ZEF) - University of Bonn
Walter-Flex Str., 3
53113 Bonn
Germany
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