In addition, your example shows that you
want to zap the originals once they have
been copies, so that you
would need two extra lines in your
loop:
replace S_`M' = . in `i'
replace A_`M' = . in `i'
If I were doing this, I would -reshape-, as Friedrich
suggested. That would be easier if you used names S_0
and A_0 rather than SA and MA. That way it would be
easy to sort mothers to the start of each block of
observations.
Nick
[email protected]
n j cox
> Friedrich's advice is very good. Nevertheless here is one way to
> do what you want:
>
> gen SA = .
> gen MA = .
> qui forval i = 1/`=_N' {
> local M = Mom[`i']
> replace SA = S_`M' in `i'
> replace MA = A_`M' in `i'
> }
>
> >>> [email protected]
>
> The variables S_i, A_i represent characteristics of household member
> i. The column Mom gives me the underscored value of where the Mom's
> characteristics are. For instance, in the first household, the mom's
> characteristics are S_2 and A_2 cause Mom takes the value 2. In the
> second household, Mom is in S_1 and A_1...
>
> Id Mom S_1 A_1 S_2 A_2 S_3 A_3 ... S_46 A_46
> 1 2 0 24 0 22 1 12 ... 0 67
> 2 1 1 29 0 32 0 8 ... . .
> .
> .
> 20 3 1 76 0 75 0 46 ... 1 41
> .
> .
>
> What I want to create is the following:
>
> Id Mom S_1 A_1 S_2 A_2 S_3 A_3 ... S_46 A_46 SA MA
> 1 2 0 24 . . 1 12 ... 0 67 0 22
> 2 1 . . 0 32 0 8 ... . . 1 29
> .
> .
> 20 3 1 76 0 75 . . ... 1 41 0 46
>
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