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Re: st: Is there a command for picking off the lowest values of an Identified group?
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Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Is there a command for picking off the lowest values of an Identified group?
Date
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:49:33 +0000
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Ian Breunig <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to find the age of the mother's youngest child.
>
> If, for example, I have data as follows:
>
> Mother ID: Child ID: Child Age:
>
> 1 a 1
> 1 b 2
> 1 c 3
> 1 d 4
> 2 e 10
> 2 f 10
> 2 g 12
> 3 h 5
> 3 i 7
>
> Is there a simple command to tell me the youngest age for every Mother
> ID or do I have to use a do loop and if statement to do this? If so
> can anyone help me out with the most efficient way to code the do
> loop.
No loop required, the following should do what you are after (note
I've assumed variable names, as the above are illegal in Stata as
spaces in variable names are not permitted)
bysort mother_id (child_age) : gen youngest_child = child_age[1]
The variable youngest_child will be constant within each grouping of
mother_id and will contain the age of the youngest child (by virtue of
having sorted the data on that variable).
Neil
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