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Re: st: Merge two data sets


From   David Kantor <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Merge two data sets
Date   Fri, 18 Apr 2003 16:16:51 -0400

At 03:30 PM 4/18/2003 -0400, Vimalanand wrote:
Dear Friends

I have following two datasets

Dataset 1 with 2 rows
Data set 2 with 5 rows
I want the resultant dataset to be 2x5 = 10 rows for the household


Data set 1.

OBVS1ID HHID  PersonID  PersonCharacteristcis
25                   1            1
26                   1            2                .....Matrix(X1)

Data set 2 (from Census)
OBVS2ID HHID    PersonID    Person&other_characteristics
A21            1            1
A22            1            2
A23            1            3                      .....Matrix(X2)
A24            1            4
A25            1            5

Resultant data set

OBVS1ID    OBVS2ID     HHID   PersonID1    PersonID2  Person_charac
Person& other charac
25                    A21            1            1                    1
25                    A22            1            1                    2
25                    A23            1            1                    3
25                    A24            1            1                    4
25                    A25            1            1                    5
26                    A21            1            2                    1
26                    A22            1            2                    2
26                    A23            1            2                    3
26                    A24            1            2                    4
26                    A25            1            2                    5
I think what you want is -joinby-

But you may need to rename some variables (PersonID and other person characteristics) to make them distinct -- where they exist in both datasets, and originally have the same name, but are not part of the joinby key.


David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
410-516-5404

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