RE: st: How do I identify whether an individual is related to another individual in my dataset?

[Joe Canner <jcanner1@jhmi.edu>]

In addition, more or less this exact question was asked and answered recently: http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-12/msg00240.html


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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 7:44 AM
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Subject: Re: st: How do I identify whether an individual is related to another individual in my dataset?

Often discussed on this list. See

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/creating-variables-recording-properties/

and references to that in the archive.


Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 7 March 2014 12:36, Dimitri Silva <dimitrisilva@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I need to identify whether a child is the son/daughter of a woman living in a given household, and I have the following information:
>
> (i)   hhkey - identifies a household in my dataset;
> (ii)  line_no - identifies an individual within household;
> (iii) mother - equals 0 if a child's mother does not live in the household and equals line_no if the mother of this child lives in the household.
>
> Hence, I have enough information to tell whether a woman is the mother of child living the household. How can I put this information in the mother's line?
>
> Thank you very much for any help.
>
> Dimitri.
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