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st: RE: how to retain a complicated subset of data


From   "Howrey, Bret T." <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: how to retain a complicated subset of data
Date   Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:46:34 -0500

try using -reshape- making it "wide" on the hhid, then drop households where child==0 or .



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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maghais SK [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: how to retain a complicated subset of data

Hello

I have a dataset on households of parents with kids, and parents without kids. I only want to keep the data of parents and their kids. For instance in the example below, I wish to keep only the first household(parents with 2 kids) and drop the other households. Is there any easy way of doing this? The keep and drop command works for individual observations. But I need to keep all the household members if the household has kids. Thank you

HHID   Number in household
001    1 (father)
001    2 (mother)
001    3 (child)
001    3 (child)
002    1 (father)
002    2 (mother)
003    1 (father)
004    2 (mother)


-Mag



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