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st: matching children and parents
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Andrea Smurra <[email protected]>
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st: matching children and parents
Date
Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:15:47 +0630
Hello everyone.
I am dealing with a big household survey.
I am interested in child labor and education and my objective is to create variables for each children representing parents or household' characteristics.
In particular, for each children I created two variables specifying the IDs of mother and father. Now I would like to create a variable that, for each children, specifies parents' education in the following way
motheredu_i=education[motherID_i]
where education is a variable already in the dataset
I know a way to do this, but it is extremely time consuming and I was wondering what would be the syntax to create the above "function".
Thanks.
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