Re: st: Create Variable containing Generations per Household

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I am assuming -rel_hh- is coded 1 ... 5. You will need to -recode- or
otherwise -generate- such a variable first if that is not correct.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> No looping is necessary. The number of distinct values of -rel_hh-
> within households (I assume a household identifier -hh_id-) is given
> by tagging each distinct value of -rel_hh- within each household and
> then counting.
>
> egen tag = tag(hh_id rel_hh)
> egen ngen = total(tag), by(hh_id)
>
> One-line solutions are also identifiable.
>
> For a discussion of principles, see
>
> SJ-8-4  dm0042  . . . . . . . . . . . .  Speaking Stata: Distinct observations
>         (help distinct if installed)  . . . . . .  N. J. Cox and G. M. Longton
>         Q4/08   SJ 8(4):557--568
>         shows how to answer questions about distinct observations
>         from first principles; provides a convenience command
>
> which is accessible at
> http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0042
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Laura Marlene Große
> <laura.grosse@wiwi.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
>
>> I have a dataset comprising a few houndred households and about 3,000
>> individuals that I've collected last year.
>> One of my criteria to draw a random subsample for my future research will be
>> how many generations do live in one household. Using my variable "relation
>> to the head of the household" i have identified the different types of
>> relatives and their inter-generational position. Including my codes for
>> rel_head that makes 5 possible generations:
>> 1 (6 Parent, 7 Parent in law, 12 Uncle/Aunt)
>> 2 (1 Head, 2 Conjugal Partner, 8 Biological Brother or Sister, 14 Cousin, 21
>> Sister/Brother in law, 23 Son in laws mother)
>> 3 (3 Biological Son or Daughter, 4 Son/Daughter in law, 9
>> Adopted/Foster/Stepchild, 18 Late husbands nephew, 19 Nephew/Niece, 20
>> Wife's cousin's daughter, 22 Son in laws brother, 25 Stepson, 13 Brothers
>> daughters husband)
>> 4 (5 Grandchild, 15 Granddaughters boyfriend, 16 Grandsnephew/Grandniece, 24
>> Step daughters daughter)
>> 5 (17 Great-grandchild)
>> In my individual based dataset (individual and household ID's), I would like
>> to create a new variable which contains the number of generations per
>> household. So it would be 1 generation if only number 2 is present, 2
>> generations if numbers 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 are present in the household and
>> so on. I assume that I will have to write a loop using foreach or similar.
>> However, I'm confused as to how to tell Stata to limit the loop to the
>> specific households?!

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