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Re: st: RE: count number of working adult
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Shikha Sinha <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: count number of working adult
Date
Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:58:02 -0700
Thanks Elan. I can get it work in the long version of the data, but
was wondering about the ways to do it in the WIDE format. I can go
back and forth from wide-long-wide, but in general I am interested in
getting "working adult' in the wide format in Stata.
Shikha
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Cohen, Elan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Shikha,
>
> reshape long person age working, i(hhid) j(personid)
> egen numadultwork = sum((work==1)*(age>17 & !mi(age))), by(hhid)
> * Assuming you want to go back to wide format (though I don't see why):
> reshape wide person age working, i(hhid) j(personid)
>
> HTH,
>
> - Elan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shikha Sinha
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 15:30
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: count number of working adult
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to estimate how many working adults are in each household. The
> data is in wide format. Adult is defined as age >17 and working info
> is coded as 1/0.
>
> hhid peson1-person11 age1-age11 working1-working11
>
> Thanks,
> Shikha
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