Please state the nature of the error more clearly-- "does not seem to work"
tells us very little. -merge- certainly allows multiple variables. Did
you sort both datasets on all of the variables listed?
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "sarah smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 6:52 PM
Subject: st: merging panel datasets
> Hi;
>
> I am trying to merge 2 panel datasets. But I want to use more than one
> variable, name and lastname year as merging criteria. I tried
>
> merge name lastname year using x
>
> but this does not seem to work. I will be very happy if you can help me.
>
> Thanks,
> S
>
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