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Re: st: frequency distribution for only the family unit


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: frequency distribution for only the family unit
Date   Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:10:48 +0000

To tag just one member of each family

egen tag = tag(family_id)

... if tag

Nick
[email protected]

On 25 February 2014 23:23, Patrick Abi Nader <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am using Stata 12 and my data is in wide format. I have 233
> observation (rows) for 233 children. Some of these children are
> siblings. I have variables that are for the family unit (i.e. both
> children in the same family have the same score) for example how many
> adults are in your family? or What is the race of the parent? I cannot
> count this information twice.
> When I am doing frequency distributions I want to count children from
> the same family as one unit instead of twice or 3 or 4 times. the user
> written command "fre" doesn't accept "if" or "in", and even if it was
> allowable I cannot conceive how to do this.
> I have a family_id (which uniquely identifies 175 families example of
> family id "001FCR") as a variable and I have a separate variable
> children_id.
>
> Do you folks have any suggestions?
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