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
sort id date
tempfile foo
preserve
keep date spouse age
rename spouse id
rename age age2
sort id date
save `foo'
restore
merge 1:1 id date using `foo'
compare age2 goal
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Scott
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Eric Fail <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
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