Support #113
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multiple recrods for each individual - EGOALT
Added by Nicola Pensiero almost 12 years ago.
Updated almost 12 years ago.
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Description
Hello,
I just started to use Understanding Society for the LLAKES (Institute of Education, London) and, altough I have extensively looked into the documentation, the structure of the datafile W_EGOALT is not clear to me.
In particular I am not getting why there are multiple records (lines) for each individual (as identified by pdip). Which is the format and structure of this datafile?
Thank you,
Nicola Pensiero
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Nicola,
EGOALT accounts for the pairwise relationship between all enumerated sample members in a household; _pno is the person number for the ego and _apno for the alter. The individual level enumeration file, INDALL, and the adult response file, INDRESP, have a number of pointer variables you can use if you prefer a wide rather than a long format, see e.g. _hgpart (pno of husband/wife/cp). The user guide, has a description of the pointer variables as well as an example of how to create a data set based on individual and household level information using pointers.
Jakob
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