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Re: Merging datasets from multiple countries [message #4018 is a reply to message #4010]

Tue, 17 March 2015 21:15

Reduced-For(u)m
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1) You don't want to merge them, you want to append them. It is easy: append using "filename"

2) Yes. You have to consider weights carefully and de-normalize them before using them. There is a lot of discussion on the boards about that - look in the "weighting data" threads.

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		Merging datasets from multiple countries By: bwbennett09 on Tue, 17 March 2015 10:32
		Re: Merging datasets from multiple countries By: Reduced-For(u)m on Tue, 17 March 2015 21:15
		Re: Merging datasets from multiple countries By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 18 March 2015 08:25

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