Nirina,
First, please include the Stata commands you used.
Second, how do you identified husbands and wives? A married man and a
married woman living in the same household are not necessarily married
to each other.
Friedrich
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Nirina F <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a microdataset with 5000 individuals. In the data, I have
> household questionnaires and individual questionnaires together, pid,
> hhid.
>
> I did the following scenarios and now I'm lost:
>
> 1- I separated the household(hh) questionnaire from the individual(i)
> questionnaires.
> I split the remaining individual questionnaires into married female
> and married male renamed all variables accordingly.
> Then I merged the male and female because they are husband and wife by
> their household id. I had 2000 households
> Afterward, I merged the hh questionnaire. I end up back to 5000 observations.
>
> 2- I kept the original dataset and just split into two datasets
> married female and married male which I merged afterward to have
> husband and wives. I arrive at 2000 observations.
> When I assert if household information from husband and wife is the
> same, almost 90% of the observation is false.
>
> What do you think I should do? Which one of the two should make sense?
> Thank you very much from your help.
> Nirina
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