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Merging datasets of different rounds- longitudinal [message #10533]

Wed, 03 August 2016 20:12

brammaputram@yahoo.fr is currently offline

brammaputram@yahoo.fr
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Dear forum members,

I would like to study the trend in utilization of insecticide treated bed nets in Malawi by including data from last five surveys. I am trying to know how to merge datasets by year to see the longitudinal trends in bed net use.

I am using SPSS/Stata.

Thanks in advance for your valuable insights.

Nile

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Re: Merging datasets of different rounds- longitudinal [message #10538 is a reply to message #10533]

Thu, 04 August 2016 08:12

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:

This is not a merge. It is an append, which is much easier. In Stata, you can enter "help append". I don't know about SPSS but it should be equally easy in SPSS. There have been previous posts related to appending files.

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