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Re: st: Creating new variables for parent groups in a joint family
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"Tanu Kohli" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Creating new variables for parent groups in a joint family
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Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:03:15 -0400
I tried that as well but am unable to do it as the codes are the same.
Sincerely,
Tanu Kohli
Division of Global Affairs/ Dept of Economics
Rutgers University
Newark
Indeed. You need to extend the identifier to include a couples
identifier and use that as well in the -by()- argument.
Nick
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Tanu Kohli
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you Nick. However, one household can have more than one set of parents in
> the
> second generation. These are also coded as 3 and 4. i have education for 1st set
> of
> parents coded as 3 and 4, but cannot get it for families which have more than one
> couple in the second generation.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Tanu Kohli
> Division of Global Affairs/ Dept of Economics
> Rutgers University
> Newark
>
> You can calculate new variables such as
>
> egen edu3 = total((relationcode == 3) * education) , by(HHID)
>
> egem edu4 = total((relationcode == 4) * education), by(HHID)
>
> and then
>
> collapse edu3 edu4 , by(HHID)
>
> For "STATA" read "Stata".
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Tanu Kohli
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have a dataset that contains information on joint families and is coded and
>> arranged in the following way-
>>
>> HHID Relation to the Head Relation code Education
>> 1 Self 1 3
>> 1 Spouse of head 2 1
>> 1 Married Child 1 3 10
>> 1 Spouse of married child 1 4 7
>> 1 Grandchild 1 6 3
>> 1 Grandchild 2 6 2
>> 1 Married child 2 3 12
>> 1 Spouse of married child 2 4 13
>> 1 Grandchild 3 6 1
>>
>> I want to seperate education of married child 1 and spouse of married child 1 as
>> new variables corresponding with their children's education (grandchild 1 and
>> grandchild 2). Similarly, I want new variables for education of married child 2
>> and
>> his spouse corresponding with their child (grandchild 3).
>>
>> How can I do this STATA so that I have only 1 observation for household 1 and
>> rest
>> information as new variables?
>>
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