Re: st:transition from unemployment

[Katya Galactionova <galactionova@gmail.com>]

presumably you have some sort of a person level identifier, say:
PERSID, then what you want could be accomplished by creating dummies
for each transition scenario:

foreach s in emp olf unemp {
         by persid year, sort: gen `s'=(status[_n+1]=="`s'")
}

Note: this will work if in your base year (2002) all records are unemployed.

see more:
Cox N. "Speaking Stata: How to move step by: step." The Stata Journal
(2002). 2(1):86-102
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0004

Cheers!


2012/4/21 Мещеряков Антон <anton.mesh777@yandex.ru>:
> Dear STATA users,
>
> I would like to define status transitions from unemployment to employment, unemployment to olf, unemployment to unempl during two years.
>
> In 2002 the respondents are unemployed, but in 2003 they may change they status becoming empl or olf, however, they may also stay at unemployment.
>
> Data looks like (status change for one respondent during two years):
>
> status                  year
> unemp                 2002
> unemp                 2002
> emp                     2003
> emp                     2003
> unemp                 2002
> emp                     2003
> olf                        2003
> unemp                 2002
> unemp                 2002
> unemp                 2003
> olf                        2003
> unemp                 2002
> emp                     2003
> olf                        2003
>
> I need to identify and fix the quantity of the FIRST status change: transition from unemployment(2002) to status(emp, olf or unemp) in 2003.
> Could you please help if you have ideas how to do it right?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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