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st: Re: Survey data: how to assign mother's age to child?


From   Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: Survey data: how to assign mother's age to child?
Date   Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:06:40 -0700 (PDT)

I forgot to mention that I use Stata 8.2.

--- Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Once again, apologies for the incomplete messages. It seems that
> I inadvertently discovered a new keyboard shortcut for sending
> messages in Yahoo Mail.
> 
> I work with household survey data and am looking for a way to
> assign the mother's age to her children. The problem is that some
> observations are missing. Take the data below:
> 
> hh   id   sex   age   mid   fid
> 1     1     1    30     .     .
> 1     2     2    30     .     .
> 1     3     1     5     2     1
> 2     1     1    30     .     .
> 2     3     2     5     2     1
> 
> There are two households (hh 1 and 2) with three household members
> each (id 1 to 3). mid identifies a child's mother, fid the father.
> In household 2, the mother (id 2) is missing. The usual code to
> assign the mother's age therefore fails:
> 
> . bysort hh (id): gen mage=age[mid]
> 
> hh   id   sex   age   mid   fid  mage
> 1     1     1    30     .     .     .
> 1     2     2    30     .     .     .
> 1     3     1     5     2     1    30
> 2     1     1    30     .     .     .
> 2     3     2     5     2     1     5
> 
> The child in the second household is assigned her own age as the
> mother's age because age[2] points to the wrong observation. My
> solution is a loop over households and household members.
> 
> . gen mage2 = .
> . levels hh, local(households)
> . foreach hh of local households {
>     levels mid if hh==`hh', local(mothers)
>     foreach m of local mothers {
>       sum age if hh==`hh' & id==`m', meanonly
>       replace mage2 = r(mean) if hh==`hh' & mid==`m'
>     }
>   }
> 
> This yields the correct result but the loop is very time-consuming
> with thousands of observations.
> 
> hh   id   sex   age   mid   fid  mage mage2
> 1     1     1    30     .     .     .     .
> 1     2     2    30     .     .     .     .
> 1     3     1     5     2     1    30    30
> 2     1     1    30     .     .     .     .
> 2     3     2     5     2     1     5     .
> 
> I would appreciate suggestions for making the code more efficient.
> 
> Friedrich Huebler

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