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Re: Merging Egypt 2000 KR and HW files [message #11541 is a reply to message #11523] |
Mon, 09 January 2017 21:43 |
Bridgette-DHS
Messages: 3204 Registered: February 2013
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:
Quote:This merge is non-standard because caseid in the KR file for this survey is left-adjusted and has no leading blanks. You have to move the trailing blanks to the beginning, and remove the woman's line number in order to get a hhid that will match with the HW file. This was a mistake but unfortunately it comes up in a few other surveys too. To figure this out I had to do quite a bit of column-by-column deciphering of caseid. The following lines will work. You have to change the paths. I am using an older version of the merge command, which I much prefer to the current version.
* How to merge the KR and HW files from the Egypt 2000 DHS survey
set more off
* Prepare the KR file
use e:\DHS\DHS_data\KR_files\EGKR42FL.dta, clear
* caseid is left-adjusted with no leading blanks, but has trailing blanks;
* caseid is str15, but longest is str13. It should be hhid plus 3 cols for v003
* I must convert it to be right-adjusted and without the woman's line number
use e:\DHS\DHS_data\KR_files\EGKR42FL.dta, clear
codebook caseid
recast str13 caseid
gen length=strlen(caseid)
tab length
* remove the last three non-missing columns of caseid, which are the line number of the woman, to get hhid
gen str2 blank2=" "
gen str3 blank3=" "
gen str4 blank4=" "
gen str12 caseidrev=" "
replace caseidrev=blank4+substr(caseid,1,8) if length==11
replace caseidrev=blank3+substr(caseid,1,9) if length==12
replace caseidrev=blank2+substr(caseid,1,10) if length==13
rename caseidrev hhid
rename b16 hvidx
sort hhid hvidx
save e:\DHS\scratch\temp.dta, replace
* Prepare the HW file and do the merge
use e:\DHS\DHS_data\HW_files\EGHW41FL.dta, clear
* hwhhid is right adjusted with no trailing blanks, but has leading blanks, as is normal
* hwhhid is str12
rename hwhhid hhid
rename hwline hvidx
sort hhid hvidx
merge hhid hvidx using e:\DHS\scratch\temp.dta
tab _merge
* then keep if _merge==3, drop _merge, and save the file
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