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st: [Fwd: gen a between houshold id]


From   "Hans J. Baumgartner" <[email protected]>
To   statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   st: [Fwd: gen a between houshold id]
Date   Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:09:04 +0100

Dear Statalist,

Can anybody help me to generate a new variable that indicates the household of the parents. To clarify my data:

persnr sex V05001 vnr v_hh
1 m 1 . . 2 f 1 . . 3 f 1 1 1 4 f 11 1 1
persnr is a person identifier (1 = the father, 2 = the mother, 3 = the daughter that lives with the parents and 4 = the daughter that lives in another household).
vnr identifies the persnr of the father.

I would like to generate a new variable v_hh that identifies the houshold id (V05001) of the father. It is easy for the daughter that lives with her parents but I find it quite difficult to generate the between household link with the daughter that does not live with her parents.

I thus constructed a loop that is copy/pasted below. However, I do have 21,000 obs. and I do have to run the loop twice, i.e. for both parents, which takes more than 3 hours.

Can anybody help me to generat faster between household links?

And to make thinks even more complicated. I have more than two generations in my data, that is, motherid and fatherid does not necessarily be missing.

I appreciate all comments.

Thanks
Hans


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sort persnr
gen id=_n /* generiert lfd. Nummer f�r Schleife */
sum id
local end = r(max) /* generiert das Ende der Schleife */

etime, start

/* Vater */
gen v_hh1 =.
gen v_hh2 =.
gen v_kein=0
forvalues x = 1/`end' {
if vnr[`x']>0 { gen temp_i = vnr[`x'] if vnr[`x']>0 /* write vnr[i] for all obs. */
gen temp_d = (temp_i==persnr) /* Dummy for father */
gen temp_hh= V05001 if temp_d==1 /* identifier for father HH */
egen count=count(temp_hh)
error count>1 /* error if >1 fathers */
replace v_kein=1 in `x' if count==0 /* Dummy if no father found*/
egen temp_pic= max(temp_hh) /* writes father HH for all obs */
replace v_hh1 = temp_pic in `x' if HV[`x']==1 | partner[`x']==1 /* picks father HH (STM) */
replace v_hh2 = temp_pic in `x' if HV[`x']==0 | partner[`x']==0 /* picks father HH (else)*/
drop temp_* count
}
}
etime

--
Hans J. Baumgartner DIW Berlin
German Institute for Economic Research
Dept. Public Economics
K�nigin-Luise-Str. 5; 14195 Berlin; Germany Tel.: +49/30/89789-307; Fax.: +49/30/89789-114
http://www.diw.dehttp://www.hansbaumgartner.de



--
Hans J. Baumgartner DIW Berlin
German Institute for Economic Research
Dept. Public Economics
K�nigin-Luise-Str. 5; 14195 Berlin; Germany Tel.: +49/30/89789-307; Fax.: +49/30/89789-114
http://www.diw.de
http://www.hansbaumgartner.de


--
Hans J. Baumgartner DIW Berlin
German Institute for Economic Research
Dept. Public Economics
K�nigin-Luise-Str. 5; 14195 Berlin; Germany Tel.: +49/30/89789-307; Fax.: +49/30/89789-114
http://www.diw.de
http://www.hansbaumgartner.de



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