It seems that you have data on individuals, some male, some female;
some husbands, some wives, some other categories.
Your definitions are
gen wife = ms == 2 & sex == 1 & head == 2
gen husband = ms == 2 & sex == 1 & head == 1
I assume here heterosexual marriages. Hence a husband must
be male. So sex == 1 is wrong to define husbands if, as you say,
that designates females.
Nick
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Nirina F
Dear Nick,
I looked at what you put together on Stata faqs
http://stata.com/support/faqs/data/members.html
so could you may be help me in this.
I have one dataset so I don't need to merge but to separate members of
household out but then be able to run a
reg income ageofwife ageofhusband schoolingofwife fe
This is how I defined
gen wife=0
replace wife=1 if ms==2 & sex==1 & head==2
[ms is marital status, taking value 2 if married
sex is gender, taking value 1 if female
head is the relationship to hh head, taking value 2 if wife]
gen husband=0
replace husband=1 if ms==2 & sex==1 & head==1
I have one dataset so I don't need to merge but to separate members of
household out but then be able to run an equation like:
reg income ageofwife ageofhusband schoolingofwife schoolingofhusband
I know something is wrong with my definition above because I get 0
observation when I run the regression.
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