Hello Nirina,
a husband is a married male household head. A wife is a married female
household member reporting relationship to the household head =
"spouse". (Almost always there will be men heading the households, but
not in 100%. So you might want just to check if the genders are
opposite, and relationship to head is "spouse". But then again, what
to do with M-M or F-F partnerships?)
Variables needed: relationship to household head, gender, marital status.
In some datasets there is a distinction between households and
families (within a household), which might make it easier dealing with
multigenerational households.
What data are you working with?
Best regards, Sergiy
On 10/9/07, Nirina F <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sergiy,
> I know that multigeneration household would be very difficult but I
> just would like to constitute one household but differentiate wives
> and husbands.
> Yes, I do have variables such as "relationship to the head of
> household", marital status, sex but how to construct the distinction,
> I don't know.
> Thanks,
> Nirina
>
> On 10/8/07, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello Nirina,
> >
> > in general it might be very difficult or even impossible (think of a
> > multigeneration household). Look for a variable, which is named like
> > "" or something similar. If you
> > don't have it, then you might want to check if cirtain rules apply to
> > the order of persons in the household (e.g. household head is listed
> > first, spouse - second, then other adults, then children). In this
> > case you might be able to identify a household head and a spouse, but
> > still there might be troubles, (e.g. household is an unmarried brother
> > and his unmarried sister living together with no children or other
> > relatives).
> >
> > Best regards, Sergiy Radyakin
> >
> >
> > On 10/8/07, Nirina F <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I just came accross -hh- but I am not sure how to use it.
> > >
> > > I am basically trying to distinguish wife and husband in my data. I
> > > have household unique identifier, survey household number, sex of
> > > respondent, personal identification of respondent and line number of
> > > respondent in the household.
> > >
> > > I would appreciate very much if you could help me differentiate wives
> > > and husbands.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot in advance,
> > >
> > > Nirina
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