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Re: st: matching children and parents


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: matching children and parents
Date   Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:54:52 +0100

-matsize- limits may bite. See -help limits-.
Nick
[email protected]


On 12 June 2013 16:50, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is an attractive idea.  The restriction Jeph flags may not bite
> hard as you should be able to use e.g. -egen, group()- to get unique
> identifiers.
>
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 12 June 2013 13:48, Jeph Herrin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The lookup problem is one I often run into in Stata. That is, retrieving a
>> value for a variable using a (unique!) identifier from another.
>>
>> One solution I have used is to store the variable of interest in a matrix.
>> If (!) your ID is a unique string, then you can
>>
>>   mkmat education, matrix(E) rownames(ID)
>>   gen motheredu= el("E",rownumb("E",motherID),1)
>>
>>
>> hth,
>> Jeph
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/12/2013 3:45 AM, Andrea Smurra wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone.
>>> I am dealing with a big household survey.
>>> I am interested in child labor and education and my objective is to create
>>> variables for each children representing parents or household'
>>> characteristics.
>>> In particular, for each children I created two variables specifying the
>>> IDs of mother and father. Now I would like to create a  variable that, for
>>> each children, specifies parents' education in the following way
>>>
>>> motheredu_i=education[motherID_i]
>>>
>>> where education is a variable already in the dataset
>>>
>>> I know a way to do this, but it is extremely time consuming and I was
>>> wondering what would be the syntax to create the above "function".
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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