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Re: Merging DHS data in Stata [message #8388 is a reply to message #8347]

Wed, 21 October 2015 13:55

Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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

I can do everything I want with the old version of merge, which did not include 1:1 or 1:m or m:1 or m:m. I prefer simplicity, so I stay with the old version, but it's not better or worse. You can use whatever version of the merge command that you want to.

You should only occasionally need to use joinby. It's a very powerful command but tends to produce files that are much much larger than the input files. It will give you all possible combinations of cases that match on whatever id code you are using. If you have 10 cases in file 1 with id=12345 and 8 cases in file 2 with id=12345, you will get 10*8 joined (or paired) cases with id=12345.

I think what you want to do would be as follows:

use PRXXXXFL.dta, clear
rename hv001 v001
rename hv002 v002
rename hvidx v003
sort v001 v002 v003
save temp.dta, replace

use IRXXXXFL.dta, clear
sort v001 v002 v003

merge v001 v002 v003 using temp.dta
tab _merge
keep if _merge==3
drop _merge

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		Merging DHS data in Stata By: DHS user on Wed, 20 February 2013 11:45
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 20 February 2013 11:46
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: kf2349 on Tue, 26 March 2013 16:20
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 28 March 2013 09:25
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: jack.murphy on Tue, 15 November 2016 11:26
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 16 November 2016 09:32
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: jack.murphy on Thu, 17 November 2016 16:53
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 18 November 2016 10:31
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: jack.murphy on Fri, 18 November 2016 11:28
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: jack.murphy on Fri, 18 November 2016 11:38
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 18 November 2016 14:36
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: jack.murphy on Fri, 18 November 2016 14:37
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Hassen on Sun, 06 May 2018 05:58
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: caragh on Tue, 02 April 2013 18:46
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 09 April 2013 12:07
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: owraza on Sat, 28 June 2014 20:38
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 30 June 2014 13:20
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: owraza on Wed, 02 July 2014 07:24
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 02 July 2014 10:21
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: kinsukmanisinha@gmail.com on Wed, 14 October 2015 09:38
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 21 October 2015 13:55
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: mianrashid on Tue, 10 May 2016 10:01
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: owraza on Tue, 10 May 2016 15:24
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: mianrashid on Tue, 10 May 2016 17:04
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: owraza on Tue, 10 May 2016 20:33
		Re: Merging DHS data in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 12 May 2016 09:08
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