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st: RE: RE: creating age at first birth from birth history data


From   Henry DOCTOR <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: creating age at first birth from birth history data
Date   Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:28:35 -0000

Thanks to Nick Cox for the reply. I will try what you have suggested and get
back to you if I experience any problems. In the interim it looks like you
have guessed right about the data. 
Henry

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 26 April 2004 10:57
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: creating age at first birth from birth history data

I'll guess at your data structure. If this 
isn't correct, you may need to say more 
about it. 

I assume some identifier variable 
and a variable containing dates of birth
of children, as in 

mother birthdate 
1       1feb2001
1       1mar1999
1       4jul1996 
1       28feb1994
2       2nov2003 
2       etc. 
3
3
3
3

I also assume -birthdate- is a Stata
elapsed date. 

Your problem at its simplest is that 
the birthdates are in the reverse order
fom what you want. 

bysort mother (birthdate) : gen first = birthdate[1] 

will generate a variable with firstbirths from 
these data. The same value of -first- will be 
repeated for each -mother-. To get the age
of the mother at the first birth, you may 
need to subtract the mother's date of birth, 
possily in another variable. 

Nick
[email protected] 

Henry DOCTOR

> I need to create a variable called "age at first birth" 
> for women from birth history data. The variable has information 
> for births beginning with the last child (most recent birth) 
> to the first child (first pregnancy). So, every woman has n 
> children and the last (nth child) in the data is the first born. 
> I want to reverse this so that the variable gives me the nth 
> child for every woman as the first born.


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