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Fri, 23 October 2015 18:01

Reduced-For(u)m
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From a previous post:

http://userforum.dhsprogram.com/index.php?t=msg&th=2075& amp;goto=4224&S=851fe28e75716e4e1e9654ca24639320#msg_422 4

*begin using the individual recode (I used child, but should still work)
use child.dta

*generate the variable that corresponds to the wealth data
gen whhid = substr(caseid, 1, 12)

*merge
merge m:1 whhid using wealth.dta

		Merging wealth index with individual file By: Saima on Thu, 22 October 2015 13:11
		Re: Merging wealth index with individual file By: Reduced-For(u)m on Fri, 23 October 2015 18:01

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