Good Day,
I am trying to do something which I imagine must be easy to do in Stata, but
I can't find the solution in the manuals, help books, or FAQ online.
Clearly, I am not thinking clearly, because this seems like a simple
request. Perhaps, I just don't know how to phrase the question correctly in
my search for the answer. Nevertheless, I am hoping that someone can help or
direct me to an existing response that my answer my question with the
Statalist archive number or month/year.
Here is a simplified version of my dilemma:
I have a data set with multiple id numbers. There are is always one
primary id (hhid), but sometimes there are more than one subsidiary ids
(persid). The persid is simply two digits more than the hhid. For example
hhid= 12345 and persid=1234501 (or in the cases where there is more than
one, persid=1234501, 1234502, 1234503, etc. The records are structured
such that for every action on a given date, there is a record. For
example:
HHID PERSID ACTION DATE
12345 1234501 EAT 1/1/2003
12345 1234501 DRINK 1/2/2003
12345 1234501 DRINK 1/3/2003
12345 1234501 BE MERRY 1/4/2003
12345 1234502 DRINK 1/1/2003 <-Note new person id, but same hhid
12345 1234502 EAT 1/3/2003
12345 1234503 BE MERRY 1/2/2003 <-Note new person id, but same
hhid
12346 1234601 BE MERRY 1/1/2003 <-Note new hhid
... and so on.
So, here is my dilemma, I am trying to find a command or commands that
will do two things:
(1) For the entire data set, across all households, how many times are
there 1,2,3,...N numbers of unique PERSIDs within a household? That is,
how many households have 1,2,3,... N persons.
(2) Display the HHID for households that have X number of persons? That
is, for households with X number of unique PERSIDS within a household,
list the HHIDS.
It seems so simple, but the count command can't count within variables.
The egen command can't work with by commands. Clearly, there is an obvious
answer but I can't seem to figure it out. Please help.
Thanks,
Donnell
Donnell Butler
Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton University
125 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-419-1311
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