Hi everyone,
A sample of my data looks as follows (my current data). I am trying to keep those observations whose marital status is married in at least one year. In other words, I wanna keep him/her in the data even if his/her marital status changes afterwards. Likewise, if a person's marital status is unmarried, I wanna drop him/her out. Thanks.
Nader



*My current data
Code:
clear all
input id year str16 (marital)
1 2000 "married"
1 2002 "married"
1 2004 "married"
2 2000 "never married"
2 2002 "never married"
3 2000 "never married"
3 2002 "married"
3 2004 "divorced"
4 2002 "never married"
4 2004 "married"
5 2002 "divorced"
5 2004 "married"
end
list
*My goal
Code:
clear all
input id year str16 (marital)
1 2000 "married"
1 2002 "married"
1 2004 "married"
3 2002 "married"
3 2004 "divorced"
4 2004 "married"
5 2004 "married"
end
list