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boy_1
2007 Oct 26
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finding birth position
...is male,
b1=2 if the first birth is female,
and b1=NA if the family did not record any first birth.
Similarly for b2, b3, b4, b5 and b6.
I want to record the positions of the male children within their
family's birth history. So, I was thinking of creating six variables
boy_1, boy_2, ..., boy_6. boy_1 would record the position of the first
boy, boy_2 would record the position of the second boy and so on till
boy_6. I want to assign a value of zero to boy_i if the family in
question did not have the i_th boy.
I am not sure how best to do this (i.e., whether to create variables as
I have s...