The DHS Program User Forum
Discussions regarding The DHS Program data and results
Home » Data » Merging data files » merging children's file and wealth index
merging children's file and wealth index [message #6821] Mon, 20 July 2015 12:58 Go to next message
avr25 is currently offline  avr25
Messages: 3
Registered: April 2015
Member
Hi! Does anyone have code in stata to merge the children's file(KR) to the wealth file.
I am aware that caseid = whhid + v003
I just don't know how to subtract the last character in caseid to match it to whhid? what command or syntax would be most appropriate?

Report message to a moderator

Re: merging children's file and wealth index [message #7112 is a reply to message #6821] Tue, 25 August 2015 06:00 Go to previous message
Bridgette-DHS is currently offline  Bridgette-DHS
Messages: 3230
Registered: February 2013
Senior Member
Please reference a post by Reduced-For(u)m: Post # 4224

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic: discrepancies after merging PR and IR/MR
Next Topic: Merging African countries and discrepancy between births and household file
Goto Forum:
  

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [ RSS ] [ PDF ]

Current Time: Sun Jul 13 20:12:15 Coordinated Universal Time 2025
.:: Contact :: Home :: Privacy Policy ::.

Powered by: FUDforum 3.0.9.
Copyright ©2001-2018 FUDforum Bulletin Board Software

The information provided on this Web site is not official U.S. Government information and
does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the U.S. Government...