Two thoughts:
What is wrong with -clonevar- [sic]?
Your initial question was how to
get an exact clone, as I recall.
In view of awkwardnesses with leading
and trailing blanks, why not trim
all blanks and concatenate with "_"
as separator?
Nick
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> Indeed, it is the case and Uli's suggestion is not working.
> In fact, the problem is deeper than that.
> I have several Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data sets.
> They come in different flavors (households, women, children, etc...)
> I need to merge households and women (individuals) files.
> I go on as indicated by the DHS team (see below and also a previous
> thread on sustr() I posted last week, to which Nick
> graciously responded).
>
> But unfortunatelly, for one country, there is no hhid in the
> household file.
> But there is a caseid in the women file for that country.
> I need thus to generate a hhid (based on cluster and household id)
> in order to be able to merge the household data with individual data
> (in which I can retrieve the hhid variable from the caseid
> one using substr()).
> The caseid in the individual files contains hhid information.
> The hhid is always 12 characters long, with sometimes leading
> and trainling
> blanks spaces (that worses the case).
>
> I just can't figure :
> - how the DHS team constructs the hhid variable (i.e. with
> leading and trailing
> blanks
> and sometimes blanks within)
> - how to retrieve it in stata.
>
> One solution of course is to build hhid in household and
> individual files using
> cluster and household ID variables (g hhid = hv001*100+hv002).
> But I am wondering if one could achieve creating the hhid
> variable exactely in the DHS tradition
> (ie with 12 characters long). Because, ultimately, I need to
> pool my data and a uniformity is desirable.
> Said differently, why is it so difficult to create a second
> hhid2 (without using clonevars)
> that is exactly the same as hhid?
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