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Re: st: finding duplicate data
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: finding duplicate data
Date
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:44:11 +0000
Have you looked at the -duplicates- command?
Nick
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mahbubeh Parsaeian
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have problem about finding duplicate data.
> I work with a dataset which consist of household information. For every
> household, interviewers should ask only from one of the family members. Unfortunately
> in some family the interviewers asked from two or more person in a family and I
> should delete this extra part of data .
> To clarify the problem, imagine the id number shows the household number.
> As an example the clusters consist of an id number such as 1, 2,3. I have
> explored the data and understand some id numbers have been repeated in the same
> cluster (for example 1 2 2) and it shows two or more person have been interviewed in the same
> family. I want to use one person in a family and delete the data for the second
> person.
> My personal idea is to use a function to enumerate the id variable
> within the clusters and delete extra id numbers which have been repeated. I know
> we have some function like _n which enumerate the repetition but I don’t know
> how I use this command to enumerate the repetition of id variable within
> clusters.
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