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st: matching data


From   Reka Sundaram-Stukel <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: matching data
Date   Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:10:53 -0500

Dear Statalist,

I am interested in matching names in two datasets. For example,

each household head has:

N1 N2 N3
First name Second name Middle name

I need to create a variable that does the following

gen check=0

if 'N1' in 'data set A' == 'N1' in 'dataset B'
and if 'N2' in 'data set A' == 'N2' in 'dataset B'
and if 'N3' in 'data set A' == 'N3' in 'dataset B'

replace gen check=1

I have tried merge by matching but I don't think that works. I think what I need is a command like VLOOKUP (excel) in stata.

any suggestions?



Reka Sundaram-Stukel
Agriculture And Applied Economics
320 Taylor Hall

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