Hey,

in the panel study I am working with, there are two times the same variable (t34005a & t34005b). The first is only asked to people who no longer live at home and the second is only asked to those who still live at home.
I would like to create a new variable from this so that I have all the cases.

My idea was the following:
// restrict variable 2 to the cases who live either with the father or with the mother.


keep t34005a if t743024==1 | t743025==1

then the same for the variable of persons who no longer live at home:

keep t34005b if t743024 <>1 | t743025<>1

and then merge, maybe with append?

I'm a complete newbie and this is just a rough sketch.

Thanks a lot for the answers!