Sibel S. <[email protected]>:
use http://pped.org/card
egen ped=rowmean(fatheduc motheduc)
corr educ ped
reg educ ped, beta
reg educ ped [pw=weight], beta
spearman educ ped
but see also e.g.
http://www.urban.org/publications/411889.html
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol7/iss2/art10
Do you have clustered survey data? The SE is not so straightforward
in any case, but esp. hard for that most common form of data.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Sibel S. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to measure standardized persistence between children's
> years of schooling and parents' average years of schooling using
> Pearson's correlation coefficient. I looked through the FAQ, but could
> not find information on this. Is there a command for this? I also
> need to obtain the standard errors for the correlation coefficients.
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
> Sibel
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