How do we normalize variables in STATA? I have household survey from
DHS and had simple output to describe the variables (see below). Note,
the number of observations and the number of total household is
problematic in running mlogit or ologit analysis. See, there were
several members of the same household who took part in the sruvey (see
the observation no. as 37,263 as opposed to 203 household numbers.) I
read in the DHS manual ' if the unit of analysis is the household
members then the files need to be normalized". There are various
normalization i.e. symetrical etc
Any suggestion or comments?
Thanks.
variable name type format label variable label
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hhid str12 %12s case identification
hv001 float %9.0g cluster number
hv002 float %9.0g household number
hv009 float %9.0g number of household members
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
hhid | 0
hv001 | 37263 199.9898 115.6933 1 400
hv002 | 37263 101.5376 58.35216 1 203
hv009 | 37263 5.884926 2.78633 1 24
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