Daphna Bassok:
You may want -bys: replace- inside a loop:
foreach v of varlist put all the relevant varnames here {
bys id (`v'): qui replace `v'=`v'[_n-1] if mi(`v')
}
bys id: drop if _n>1
may work (untested).
On 1/13/06, Marcello Pagano <[email protected]> wrote:
> For Daphna Bassok:
> I have several duplicate observations in my data set. However, they are
> not perfect duplicates. Only the id # is the same. So there might be
> two observations with id#16 for instance, the first will have values for
> some variables, and missing values for others. The second also have some
> values filled and some missing. There are no cases in which both have
> values- that is... either the first in the pair has the value OR the
> second has a value (or neither).
>
> For example: suppose I have two observations with id# 16... The first
> has values for var1 and 2 and not 3. The second ONLY has values for
> var 3. What i would like to do is simply collapse these into a single
> observation with all the relevant info. meaning, 1 observation with
> id#16 that has values for all three variables.
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