Dear all
After hours of reading and fiddling around I allow myself to write on the Statalist in the
hope that someone out there will take the time to help me.
What I want to do seem quite simple but I just can?t figure it out.
I simply want to take the age of one spouse and attach it to its matching spouse by id, so I
get a spouse_age at each observation.
I have read this thread http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2002-07/msg00124.html where the
case is family?s, but as I don?t have continues id?s that tips doesn?t seem to work in my
case. Furthermore I have read Nicholas J. Cox? Stata tip 51: Events in intervals. But I must
admit that I couldn?t figure it out from that description either. So now I try my luck here at
the Statalist.
I have a dataset like the one below, except the ?goal_spouse_age?, that?s the variable I want
to create.
clear
input str17 date year id spouse_id age goal_spouse_age
"01/01/2000" 2000 1 4 40 19
"01/01/2001" 2001 1 4 41 20
"01/01/2002" 2002 1 5 42 40
"01/01/2000" 2000 2 6 24 24
"01/01/2001" 2001 2 7 25 40
"01/01/2000" 2000 3 8 20 16
"01/01/2001" 2001 3 8 21 17
"01/01/2002" 2002 3 11 22 44
"01/01/2003" 2003 3 4 23 22
"01/01/2000" 2000 4 1 19 40
"01/01/2001" 2001 4 1 20 41
"01/01/2002" 2002 5 1 40 42
"01/01/2000" 2000 6 2 24 24
"01/01/2001" 2001 7 2 40 25
"01/01/2000" 2000 8 3 16 20
"01/01/2001" 2001 8 3 17 21
"01/01/2002" 2002 11 3 44 22
"01/01/2003" 2003 4 3 22 23
End
Can anyone tell me what to do or what I should read to figure this out?
I have managed to count the numbers of spouse each observation has, by using the loop below,
thanks to Nicholas J. Cox? description the thread mention above.
local N = _N
forvalues i = 1/`N' {
egen tag = tag(spouse_id) ///
if id == id[`i']
count if tag
replace count = r(N) in `i'
drop tag
}
The next thing I need to do is to measure the length of the first two or three marriages the
observations have had. I mention this even I haven?t work very much on this part in the hope
that one of you guys out there have had s similar case or can direct me to somewhere where I
can read more about the specific case with events accruing over a time span.
Thanks in advance.
Eric Fail
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