QUESTION 7 - ANSWER

Using egen, how many people are African sons or daughters have migrated in the last five years?

Using egen, we want to create a variable that has responses for the different races and the different relationships to the head of the household. Similar to how it was done in the original egen group exercise, type:

egen sdrace=group(race rel_head)

At this point, we can run a cross tab of rel_head on race to see how many sons and daughters are African.

         3 |

:relations |

    hip to |            19 :population group

      head |  01-afric   02-colou   03-india   04-white |     Total

-----------+--------------------------------------------+----------

  01-resid |       660         70         24        133 |       887

  02-absen |        92          4          0          2 |        98

  03-wife  |       416         59         24        103 |       602

  04-son o |      1913        192         50        165 |      2320

  05-fathe |        39          1          5          4 |        49

  06-grand |       697         41          5          3 |       746

  07-grand |         2          0          0          1 |         3

  08-mothe |         3          2          0          1 |         6

  09-son-  |        47          3          2          1 |        53

  10-broth |        19          3          0          1 |        23

  11-aunt  |         5          1          0          0 |         6

  12-siste |       114          7          2          1 |       124

  13-niece |       101         10          2          0 |       113

  14-cousi |        14          8          0          0 |        22

  16-house |         9          3          2         17 |        31

  17-lodge |         2          0          0          1 |         3

  18-other |        43          2          3          0 |        48

  19-other |         6          1          0          3 |        10

-----------+--------------------------------------------+----------

     Total |      4182        407        119        436 |      5144

There are 1913 sons or daughters who are African. Now looking at the tabulation of sdrace, one sees that this variable is coded as 4. sdrace, one sees that this variable is coded as 4.

group(race |

  rel_head) |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.

------------+-----------------------------------

          1 |        660       12.83       12.83

          2 |         92        1.79       14.62

          3 |        416        8.09       22.71

          4 |       1913       37.19       59.90

          5 |         39        0.76       60.65

          6 |        697       13.55       74.20

          7 |          2        0.04       74.24

          8 |          3        0.06       74.30

          9 |         47        0.91       75.21

         10 |         19        0.37       75.58

         11 |          5        0.10       75.68

         12 |        114        2.22       77.90

         13 |        101        1.96       79.86

         14 |         14        0.27       80.13

         15 |          9        0.17       80.31

         16 |          2        0.04       80.35

         17 |         43        0.84       81.18

         18 |          6        0.12       81.30

         19 |         70        1.36       82.66

         20 |          4        0.08       82.74

         21 |         59        1.15       83.88

         22 |        192        3.73       87.62

------------+-----------------------------------

      Total |       5144      100.00      100.00

So now it is possible to run a cross tab of sdrace and migrate.

tab sdrace migrate

group(race |  13 :migrated during past 5 yrs

 rel_head) |        -1          1          2 |     Total

-----------+---------------------------------+----------

         1 |         1         61        598 |       660

         2 |         0          9         83 |        92

         3 |         1         32        383 |       416

         4 |         3         82       1828 |      1913

         5 |         0          2         37 |        39

         6 |        10         11        676 |       697

         7 |         0          1          1 |         2

         8 |         0          0          3 |         3

         9 |         0          4         43 |        47

        10 |         0          2         17 |        19

        11 |         0          1          4 |         5

        12 |         0         14        100 |       114

        13 |         0          7         94 |       101

        14 |         0          1         13 |        14

        15 |         0          3          6 |         9

        16 |         0          1          1 |         2

        17 |         0          3         40 |        43

        18 |         0          0          6 |         6

        19 |         0          2         68 |        70

        20 |         0          0          4 |         4

        21 |         0          1         58 |        59

        22 |         0          2        190 |       192

        23 |         0          0          1 |         1

-----------+---------------------------------+----------

     Total |        15        347       4782 |      5144

So the answer is 82 people who are African sons or daughters have migrated in the last five years.

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