| Merging households members files+male files+female files [message #6762] |
Fri, 10 July 2015 16:56  |
Roseline
Messages: 2
Registered: July 2015
Location: switzerland
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Hi,
i have a problem with my merge. i would like to merge households members, man and female files with the Mali's data (2006). i followed all procedure for the merging but every time i have with the results matched=0. i don't know what happens, if someone can help me, i use STATA.
thank you
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| Re: Merging households members files+male files+female files [message #6764 is a reply to message #6762] |
Fri, 10 July 2015 20:36  |
Reduced-For(u)m
Messages: 292
Registered: March 2013
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What do you mean by wanting to "merge" those two? In one case, the unit of observation is women; in the other, it is men. Do you mean you want to "merge" them into a single household in a way that gets you more information than the household recode? Or do you just want to have all the men and all the women in a single dataset?
If you just want all the men and all the women, you don't want to "merge", you want to "append" - that is, you want to add new observations, not add more information to the same observations.
If you want household-level information, you might start with that recode, and then you would merge in the additional information you need based on household ID.
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