One likely problem is that
generate duidpid=(duid*1000)+mopid
is trying to put an 8-digit number in a float variable that
can usually hold only 7 digits.
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Thomas J. Steichen
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Austin Nichols
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: How to merge those files
Jingbo --
Look at your matching variables to see why they do not correspond
across the datasets. Are they the advertised length? Are they all
numeric? Etc.
use parents, clear
codebook dupersid
use child, clear
codebook duid mopid
On 10/18/07, E. Paul Wileyto <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your code is written like SAS programming. Try the "joinby" command.
> It does not require a preliminary sort.
>
> Yu,Jingbo wrote:
> > Hi, I got stuck and cannot find out what's wrong with my commands.
> > Anybody can help me check on them? Thanks!
> > I am trying to link the two files together with those commands:
> > use parents, clear
> > generate duidpid=dupersid
> > sort duidpid
> > save parents, replace
> > use child, clear
> > generate duidpid=(duid*1000)+mopid
> > sort duidpid
> > merge duidpid using "child"
> > tab _merge
> > _merge | Freq. Percent Cum.
> > ------------+-----------------------------------
> > 1 | 16,956 33.01 33.01
> > 2 | 34,403 66.99 100.00
> > ------------+-----------------------------------
> > Total | 51,359 100.00
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