Riano, Alejandro
>
> Dear Statalisters, i have two databases, the first one has monthly data by
> country like this:
>
> country year month var1
> Argentina 1989 1 x
> Argentina 1989 2 x
> . . . .
> . . . .
> Argentina 1999 12 x
>
>
> for some set of countries (103 in total) and i have a second
> database which
> has all the bilateral combinations among the countries that are
> included in
> the first database (on a YEARLY basis), like this:
>
>
> country1 country2 year var2
> Argentina Brazil 1989 x
> Argentina Brazil 1990 x
> . . . .
> . . . .
> Zambia Zimbabwe 1999 x
>
> My problem is that i want to merge the var1 of the first database into the
> second one and in that way trasform my second bilateral base from a yearly
> frecuency to a monthly one. Do you have any idea about how could
> i do this ?
>
You could try a -merge- using country and year
variables. It sounds as if you want to merge using
-country1 year- in the first data set and -country year-
in the second, so you need to do a -rename- first.
The -merge- will possibly be cleaner if you -expand-
the second data set to monthly first.
Nick
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