st: frequency distribution for only the family unit

[Patrick Abi Nader <p0abin01@gmail.com>]

Hello Stata users,

This is the challenge I am facing with my data:
I am using Stata 12 and my data is in wide format. I have 233
observation (rows) for 233 children. Some of these children are
siblings. I have variables that are for the family unit (i.e. both
children in the same family have the same score) for example how many
adults are in your family? or What is the race of the parent? I cannot
count this information twice.
When I am doing frequency distributions I want to count children from
the same family as one unit instead of twice or 3 or 4 times. the user
written command "fre" doesn't accept "if" or "in", and even if it was
allowable I cannot conceive how to do this.
I have a family_id (which uniquely identifies 175 families example of
family id "001FCR") as a variable and I have a separate variable
children_id.

Do you folks have any suggestions?
Thank you for your time,

Patrick

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