Michael
If you only want the income variable from the B
dataset, you need to create a temporary C dataset
which is a subset of the B dataset
use B
keep city income
save as C
You then sort this new C dataset on city, sort the A
datset on city and follow Michael Blasnik's
suggestion. You then save this new merged dataset as
some variant of A. You can then delete the C datset if
you wish.(I only mention this because I tend not to do
this and have messy little data sub-sets littering my
data folders.)
Pamela Meadows
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:08:54 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Michael Horowitz <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: Question about merging two datasets
>
> I have a problem that I was wondering if someone out
> there could help me
> with. I have two datasets. Lets call them dataset A
> and dataset B.
> Dataset A contains contains two variables, <city>
> and <income>. Dataset B
> also contains two variables, <city> and <income>.
> Dataset A is much
> larger than Dataset B and the data in Dataset B is
> more accurate than the
> data in Dataset A. Specifically, the income levels
> for
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