Hello Stata Users,
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I would like to generate a new variable which contains the information of
parents, e.g. dad's education.
My data looks like below.
FID PID Var1 Edu Var3 Dad's FID Dad's PID Dad's Edu
1001 10 1 3 5 . .
1001 20 3 3 2 . .
1001 30 4 2 3 1001 10 3
1001 31 8 5 5 1001 10 3
1002 1 2 4 3 . . .
1002 10 4 2 1 1002 1 4
1002 20 5 4 2 . . .
1002 30 9 3 2 1002 10 2
1002 31 6 1 4 1002 10 2
1002 32 4 2 5 1002 10 2
Note: FID = Family ID; PID = Person ID; Edu = Educational attainment
(Values are randomly assigned, but data structure is similar to the above.)
What I want to do is to have the last (far left) column, which is not
included in the dataset. (I want to do this kind of works for other
variables, e.g. Var1 and Var3.)
What is the best & simplist way to do this in stata?
I think I can do this like the following.
1) Split the data set into two files so that one file contains Dad's FID
and Dad's PID, and the other has all others.
2) Then, rename FID and PID in the second file as Dad's FID and Dad's PID.
3) Rename Edu (and/or other variables I want to have at Dad's level) as
Dad's Edu
4) Merge two files by matching Dad's FID and Dad's PID.
However, I think there might be easier way to do this.
Please let me know if you know anything that makes the work easier.
Thanks much, in advance.
Eunsu Ju
Ph.D. Candidate, Research Specialist
School of Social Work, University of Minnesota
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