Robin Newberry wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've 2 datasets I need to merge (one with accident data and one with
> cost data), but the one "unique" variable they have in common (Social
> Security Number) won't work since there are multiple occurrences of
> the same individual. What I need to do is merge on two variables -
> like SSN and accident date - but I can't figure out how to do this in
> Stata. Is there a way, or do I need to merge the datasets outside of
> Stata (in Excel, for example) and import them?.
Sounds like
. sort ssn accdate
. merge ssn accdate using myfile
regards
uli
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