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st: how to create a dummy with information across rows
From
ana mylena aguilar <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: how to create a dummy with information across rows
Date
Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:11:41 -0500
Hello
I have a datatset with information by households ( rows) and
individual household members in the columns.Household size can go all
the way until 25. Therefore, the format for x number of variables is
for example age1..age25.I reshaped the dataset to have household
members within each household in each row as below. However, I need to
contruct a variable that require using infomation across rows.
hh roster line age rel with hh head child's mother line
(only <14 years old)
1 1 35 household head
missing
1 2 15 daughter missing
1 3 10 daughter 1
1 4 1 grandson 2
I need to create a dummy variable to identify a teen mother in the
household. In this case, there is one (line 2). The household is
formed by a mother, two daughters ( age 15 and 10) and a grandson. The
older daughter has a 1 year old child. Every child under 14 has
information on who is his/her biological mother ( roster line of the
mother). But I would like to link the information of the chidl with
the young mother. Do I need to re-reshape or a loop would work?
Any help would be great, thanks
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