--- Gisella Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to load a datafile in text format into Stata. I am using
> the infix command. The problem is that 1 column of data (the firm
> column, which is the unique identification number for each
> observation, is different when I open it in Stata as from what I can
> see in the original text file.
Does this solve your question:
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/Stata/faq/longid.htm
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
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+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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