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st: Merge/append datasets (?)


From   "Roy,Suryadipta" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Merge/append datasets (?)
Date   Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:02:32 -0600

Hi,

I have two datasets (a.dta and b.dta) as follows:

a.dta
id oid did x3
1 1 1 5
1 1 2 6
1 1 3 6
1 1 4 6
2 2 1 6
2 2 2 6
2 2 3 6
2 2 4 6
3 3 1 6
3 3 2 6
3 3 3 6
3 3 4 6
4 4 1 6
4 4 2 6
4 4 3 6
4 4 4 6

b.dta has observation missing for id=1:
id x1
1 .
2 12
3 13
4 14

I am trying to merge the two datasets such that the new dataset should read as:
id oid did x3 x1
1 1 1 5 .
1 1 2 6 .
1 1 3 6 .
1 1 4 6 .
2 2 1 6 12
2 2 2 6 12
2 2 3 6 12
2 2 4 6 12
3 3 1 6 13
3 3 2 6 13
3 3 3 6 13
3 3 4 6 13
4 4 1 6 14
4 4 2 6 14
4 4 3 6 14
4 4 4 6 14

The common variable in both is "id" and both have already been sorted by "id". I am getting the error message as "using data not sorted" or "variable id does not uniquely identify observations in the master data".
Any help would be highly appreciated!!!
Thanks,
Suryadipta.
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