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Re: st: correlating responses within the same variable
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: correlating responses within the same variable
Date
Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:39:50 +0000
Part of this is an FAQ.
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/listing-observations-in-group/
Nick
[email protected]
On 18 March 2014 19:29, Patrick Abi Nader <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you everyone that helps out!
> I am using stata 13 and have 147 variables and 236 observations.
>
> Observations represent information collected on children. Children may
> be siblings I have 163 families.
>
> I want to see if responses of families with multiple children were
> similar for each one of those children. for example I have variable x,
> that was measured on z1, and z2 (from family 1), and on z3, z4 ( from
> family 2). I want to know if answers for each child from the same
> family were the same on x. How do you suggest I do that? I am thinking
> that I may need to create new variables but I am not sure conceptually
> how to go about that.
>
> I already created a variable tagging families by using this code
> egen tag= tag(family_id) (thanks to Nick)
>
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