Re: st: randomly select individual within strata

[n j cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

set seed 12345
gen random = uniform()
bysort hhid (random) : gen byte select = _n == 1

Ada C. Chen

Could anyone suggest me how to use STATA to randomly select one person
within a household? (says, there may be one to many persons within the
same household) I have a dataset of individuals and each has a
household ID.

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