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st: take the age of one observation and attach it to its matching observation by id with events accruing over time intervals


From   "Eric Fail" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: take the age of one observation and attach it to its matching observation by id with events accruing over time intervals
Date   Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:25:53 +0200

Dear all

After hours of reading and fiddling around I allow myself to write on the Statalist in the
hope that someone out there will take the time to help me.

What I want to do seem quite simple but I just can?t figure it out.

I simply want to take the age of one spouse and attach it to its matching spouse by id, so I
get a spouse_age at each observation.

I have read this thread http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2002-07/msg00124.html where the
case is family?s, but as I don?t have continues id?s that tips doesn?t seem to work in my
case. Furthermore I have read Nicholas J. Cox? Stata tip 51: Events in intervals. But I must
admit that I couldn?t figure it out from that description either. So now I try my luck here at
the Statalist.

I have a dataset like the one below, except the ?goal_spouse_age?, that?s the variable I want
to create.


clear
input str17   date            year     id   spouse_id age goal_spouse_age
             "01/01/2000"     2000      1         4    40    19
             "01/01/2001"     2001      1         4    41    20
             "01/01/2002"     2002      1         5    42    40
             "01/01/2000"     2000      2         6    24    24
             "01/01/2001"     2001      2         7    25    40
             "01/01/2000"     2000      3         8    20    16
             "01/01/2001"     2001      3         8    21    17
             "01/01/2002"     2002      3        11    22    44
             "01/01/2003"     2003      3         4    23    22
             "01/01/2000"     2000      4         1    19    40
             "01/01/2001"     2001      4         1    20    41
             "01/01/2002"     2002      5         1    40    42
             "01/01/2000"     2000      6         2    24    24
             "01/01/2001"     2001      7         2    40    25
             "01/01/2000"     2000      8         3    16    20
             "01/01/2001"     2001      8         3    17    21
             "01/01/2002"     2002     11         3    44    22
             "01/01/2003"     2003      4         3    22    23
End

Can anyone tell me what to do or what I should read to figure this out?

I have managed to count the numbers of spouse each observation has, by using the loop below,
thanks to Nicholas J. Cox? description the thread mention above.

local N = _N
forvalues i = 1/`N' {
	egen tag = tag(spouse_id) ///
	if id == id[`i']
	count if tag
	replace count = r(N) in `i'
	drop tag
}

The next thing I need to do is to measure the length of the first two or three marriages the
observations have had. I mention this even I haven?t work very much on this part in the hope
that one of you guys out there have had s similar case or can direct me to somewhere where I
can read more about the specific case with events accruing over a time span.

Thanks in advance.

Eric Fail




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