--- Gauthier Tshiswaka-Kashalala <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am using a household survey data that has a household
> identification variable "HHid" and a variable "age" which gives the
> age of every member of the household. How do I use stata to create
> a variable defining the number of children in the household with age
> <= 5.
See the example below. The first part till end makes some toy data, the
-gen- command creates a variable that is 1 if a person is 5 years or
younger, and the command following creates the sum of this variable
within household id.
*---------------- begin example ---------------
clear
input hhid age
1 4
1 6
1 8
2 3
2 1
end
gen byte young = age <= 5 if age < .
bys hhid : egen byte num_young = total(young)
list
*------------------ end example ----------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
-- Maarten
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