Dear all,

I have intended to use seqlogit for modelling educational attainment at three different levels (1=Less than university; 2=University BA; 3=University MA). These are the three categories of my dependent variable. And I know sequence logit model is a good option because these are successive transitions. Individuals who leave education before entering into university are not exposed to the possibility of just doing a BA or moving to a MA.

I have carefully explored the wonderful explanation that Maarten Buis, creator of this Stata command, made in the following link:

http://www.maartenbuis.nl/software/seqlogit.html#back3

And I have tried to reproduce the routines there with my own data.

Code:
seqlogit educa_3bis edufath female age i.imgen2 , tree( 1 : 2 3, 2 : 3) ofinterest(edufath)
Quite unfortunately, my variable of interest (edufath, father's education) is categorical. It has three categories. And I am afraid the syntax of seqlogit does not support this possibility. The variable to include in the 'ofinterest' option must be necessarily continuous. Maarten himself commented on that in the following post of this list:

https://www.statalist.org/forums/for.../2418-seqlogit

By any chance, do you know if there is any way of estimating the effect of each level of father's education for the successive transitions implicit in my dependent variable?

Many thanks for your attention

Luis Ortiz