--- elin zetterlund wrote:
> I have 3 files containing different individuals, and
> must of the varibles are the same but some differ. I
> have tried the merge comand and the append comand,
You should use the -append- command in this case.
The difference between -append- and -merge- is that
-append- lets you add new cases, while -merge- will
let you add new variables to a given set of cases.
In other words, -append- adds rows, and -merge-
adds columns.
If some variables have different names or if some
variables aren't present in all datasets, than that
will cause -append- to create missing values, as it
should. If a variable was missing in a dataset than
-append- can't guess the values on that variable,
and you would not want it too.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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