RE: st: merge multiple database

["GUO Lei" <lei_guo_@hotmail.com>]

How about this: try to keep id and var1 from master dataset, and then merge 
with the merging dataset, since the keep option here can only keep those 
var's from merging rather than master dataset.
nick


> Hi, I am trying to merge multiple database and keep specific 
> variables
> from each of the using files.
> I type "merge id using db1 db2, keep(var1 var2)".  var1 is in db1 
> and
> var2 is in db2. But stata gives an error message: "variable var2 not
> found in using dataset." Please help. Thank you!
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