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Cross country analysis [message #10175]

Mon, 04 July 2016 10:28

sammyladele
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Registered: June 2015
Location: Nigeria

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Hello,
Please i want to do a cross country analysis, using recent data sets from Nigeria, Kenya and Lesotho. Please do i merge the dataset? or how do i go about it?
thanks

Oladele Rotimi

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Re: Cross country analysis [message #10177 is a reply to message #10175]

Mon, 04 July 2016 14:19

Reduced-For(u)m
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Registered: March 2013

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Use the "append" command, not the "merge" command. It will simply tack all the datasets together:

http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?append

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