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Re: st: Creating new variables for parent groups in a joint family
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Creating new variables for parent groups in a joint family
Date
Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:06:25 +0100
According to your example, there is a variable "Relation to the head"
which includes the information you need.
Nick
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Tanu Kohli
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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