Uaquap wrote:
> Hello !
> I use 10 waves of BHPS and i want to create a sample of
> households
> for which marital statut change from cohabiting couple to
> married couple.
> My problem is to define the best strategy to do this task
> given that marital statut variable is
> given in the individual file data.
For the benefit of other Statalisters who don't know what BHPS means, the
British Household Panel Survey (http://iserwww.essex.ac.uk/ulsc/bhps/) is
undertaken annually across c.5500 British households every year. It has
now completed 13 waves.
Assuming that you have information on marital status for each household,
then the simplest solution would be to do this:
. g subset=1 if w1status!=w2status
. replace subset=1 if w2status!=w3status
[...]
. mvencode subset, mv(0)
You'll need to be careful, however, of household cases where marital
status changes more than once, in which case you'll have to -generate-
seperate subset variables; but this shouldn't happen too often, even in
ten annual waves of the BHPS.
Hope that helps.
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