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st: partner's occupational score when the woman is not married
Dear all,
I'm running a discrete time duration model on women's risk of exiting paid
work. In addition to covariates such as level of education, type of
contract, sector, age and number of children and so on, I would like to
include the marital status and, if married, the occupational score of the
partner.
However, which value should I give to the occupational score in the months
where the woman is not married? If I make occupational score missing, then
the model will drop the observations where the woman is not married, so that
I can not estimate the effect of marriage. If I give the value 0, STATA
reads it as a very low occupational score. A solution could be to make
occupational score a categorical varible, defing a certain number of
subgroups, with one of the subgroups being "not married". But for different
reasons I would prefer to keep occupational score as a continuous variable.
Any suggestion?
Thanks a lot in advance
Cristina
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