Dear all
I'm using Stata 9.1. In DBQ.dta, variables Year and Quarter uniquely identify
all observations (i.e. quarterly data). However, in DBM.dta this is not the
case since this database contains monthly data.
Typing
. merge Year Quarter using DBQ.dta, uniqusing sort
Yields the following error message:
variables Year Quarter do not uniquely identify observations in the master data
r(459);
Although Stata's observation is correct, I wonder why this error occurs.
Actually, Stata's error message is what I wanted to express in the -merge-
command... ("1:n merge")
Can you replicate this error (even for Stata 9.2)? How can I assure that Stata
returns an error when the "using dataset" is not uniquely identified by
varlist?
Thanks a lot for looking into this matter.
Kind regards,
Daniel
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