Linking individual data within a household

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Rara Soro
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Linking individual data within a household

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I have household data with multiple household members on each record. I want to link the information of husbands with their wives.

For example, I have a variable about men's attitudes towards women. I want to know if they are different depending on whether their wives have a disability. So I want to create a table for married men with a frequency of their responses about certain attitudes but where the columns of my table refer to the disability status of their wives.

What is the best way to do this?
Gregory Martin
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Re: Linking individual data within a household

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The best way to do this depends on how your dictionary is set up. Do you have an item that links the husband to the wife? If so, you could do write some basic tabulation logic, using variables in the working storage dictionary, to tabulate data based on both the wife and the husband. This might be easier than trying to set up an actual dictionary relation.

If you post your dictionary here, or send it to gregory.martin@census.gov, I can post an example of how to do such a linking.
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