| Merge wealth index 1999 TZ DHS [message #14119] |
Tue, 20 February 2018 12:42  |
kpat
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Registered: January 2018
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I am trying to merge Wealth Index (WI) files with the 1999 DHS IR file. The code works, but only matches 533 of over 12,000 observations.
Starting with the IR file, I used the following code (which worked for four other countries in the analysis):
gen whhid = substr(caseid,1,12)
merge m:1 whhid using "TZWI3AFL.DTA"
Please advise.
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| Re: Merge wealth index 1999 TZ DHS [message #14121 is a reply to message #14119] |
Tue, 20 February 2018 14:47  |
Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:
The following lines will work:
set more off
use e:\DHS\DHS_data\WI_files\TZWI3AFL.dta, clear
sort whhid
save e:\DHS\DHS_data\scratch\TZWItemp.dta, replace
use e:\DHS\DHS_data\IR_files\TZIR3AFL.dta, clear
gen whhid=substr(caseid,1,12)
sort whhid
merge whhid using e:\DHS\DHS_data\scratch\TZWItemp.dta
tab _merge
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