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					|  goomthatha Messages: 1
 Registered: February 2016
 Location: Paris
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	| Hi to All, 
 I am using NFHS India 3 dataset. I would like to merge men, women, and children level data (IR, MR, KR) as a household unit. The individual dataset have caseID as opposed to HHID. When i merge these data, i want to group them as households. Its like adding women, men and children questionnaire in household dataset. I used below sample merge syntax for SPSS, to merge IR and HR dataset. but i am not getting the desired objective. Is there any better way to achieve this objective? I want to integrate variables from IR, MR, KR in household level. Is it possible?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 GET FILE='C:\DATAUSER\ZMAR51FL.SAV'.
 SORT CASES BY
 HIVCLUST (A) HIVNUMB (A) HIVLINE (A).
 SAVE OUTFILE='C:\DATAUSER\HIV.sav'
 /COMPRESSED.
 
 GET FILE='C:\DATAUSER\ZMIR51FL.SAV'.
 SORT CASES BY
 V001 (A) V002 (A) V003 (A) .
 SAVE OUTFILE='C:\DATAUSER\WOMEN.sav'
 /RENAME(V001 V002 V003=
 HIVCLUST HIVNUMB HIVLINE)
 /COMPRESSED.
 
 GET FILE='C:\DATAUSER\WOMEN.sav'.
 MATCH FILES /FILE=*
 /TABLE='C:\DATAUSER\HIV.sav'
 /BY HIVCLUST HIVNUMB HIVLINE.
 EXECUTE.
 SAVE OUTFILE='C:\DATAUSER\ZMAR_IR.SAV'
 /COMPRESSED.
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