Hello,
I have a dataset in which each participant/respondent has information on
up to 3 partners.
I'm trying to compute a new variable that will indicate whether each
participant had only same sex partners, only opposite sex partners, or
both. I have separate variables indicating the sex of partner 1,2,and 3,
and I have a variable for the gender of the respondent.
This is the syntax I have tried, but it is not working:
COMPUTE partnergender.
IF gender=1 AND partner1gender=1 AND partner2gender=1 AND partner3gender=1
partnergender=1 (same sex).
IF gender=2 AND partner1gender=2 AND partner2gender=2 AND partner3gender=2
partnergender=1 (same sex).
IF gender=1 AND partner1gender=2 AND partner2gender=2 AND partner3gender=2
partnergender=2 (opposite sex).
IF gender=2 AND partner1gender=1 AND partner2gender=1 AND partner3gender=1
partnergender=2 (opposite sex).
IF else partnergender=0 (both sexes).
EXECUTE.
Also, not all participants have 3 partners. Some only have 1 or 2. How do
I account for this also? I'm afraid if I request partnergender="same sex"
if all 3 partners have same sex as respondent, then if someone only has 2
partners it won't be computed since not all 3 are same sex (i.e., one is
missing).
Can someone share with me what might be wrong with the syntax I'm using,
and how to account for respondents who only have 1 or 2 partners?
Thanks so much in advance,
Heather
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