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Re: South Africa (1998): Merging Wealth Index with Individual Recode File in Stata [message #915 is a reply to message #884]

Fri, 01 November 2013 14:13

Bridgette-DHS
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Here is a comment from one of our STATA experts Tom Pullum, that should answer your question.

Instead of extracting a substring of caseid, it is better to use v001 and v002. That is, open the WI file; then "sort v001 v002"; then open the IR file; "sort v001 v002"; then "merge v001 v002" using the sorted WI file.

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		South Africa (1998): Merging Wealth Index with Individual Recode File in Stata By: synvox on Tue, 29 October 2013 10:48
		Re: South Africa (1998): Merging Wealth Index with Individual Recode File in Stata By: synvox on Tue, 29 October 2013 11:17
		Re: South Africa (1998): Merging Wealth Index with Individual Recode File in Stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 01 November 2013 14:13

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