No, that is wrong. Sorry.
A better answer than my previous is
bysort HH_ID (Birth_Order) : gen ngirl = max(0, sum(gender == "F") - 1)
by HH_ID: gen nboy = max(0, sum(gender == "M") - 1)
Nick
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Nick Cox
> Note that this can be telescoped to something like
>
> bysort HH_ID gender (Birth_order) : gen nsame = _n - 1
> separate nsame, by(gender) veryshortlabel
Fred Wolfe
> > Try this:
> >
> > gen nboy = gender == "M"
> > gen ngirl = gender == "F"
> > qbys HH_ID (Birth_order) :replace ngirl = ngirl[_n-1] +
> ngirl if _n!=1
> > replace ngirl = ngirl - 1 if gender =="F"
> > qbys HH_ID (Birth_order) :replace nboy = nboy[_n-1] + nboy if _n!=1
> > replace nboy = nboy - 1 if gender =="M"
> > l ,sepby(HH)
> >
> > +------------------------------------------+
> > | HH_ID Birth_~r gender nboy ngirl |
> > |------------------------------------------|
> > 1. | 1 1 F 0 0 |
> > 2. | 1 2 M 0 1 |
> > 3. | 1 3 M 1 1 |
> > |------------------------------------------|
> > 4. | 2 1 F 0 0 |
> > 5. | 2 2 F 0 1 |
> > 6. | 2 3 M 0 2 |
> > 7. | 2 4 F 1 2 |
> > 8. | 2 5 M 1 3 |
> > +------------------------------------------+
> >
>
> Hui Wang
>
> > >I have a data set with 3 variables listed as following:
> > >
> > >1) HH_id: Household id. To identify households.
> > >2) Birth_order: Birth_order of individual in the household.
> > To identify
> > >individuals.
> > >3) Gender: Sex of each individual.
> > >
> > >Now I want to creat two variables: nboy and ngirl, which
> > counts, for each
> > >individual in a given household, how many boy (girl) the
> > household already
> > >have when that individual was born.
> > >
> > >The following is a example:
> > >
> > >HH_id| Birth_order | Gender | nboy | ngirl|
> > >1 | 1 | F | 0 | 0
> > >1 | 2 | M | 0 | 1
> > >1 | 3 | M | 1 | 1
> > >2 | 1 | F | 0 | 0
> > >2 | 2 | F | 0 | 1
> > >2 | 3 | M | 0 | 2
> > >2 | 4 | F | 1 | 2
> > >2 | 5 | M | 1 | 3
> > >
> > >My question is, given "HH_id", "Birth_order", and "Gender",
> > how to program
> > >to generate "nboy" and "ngirl"?
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