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st: AW: Merging observations


From   Jochen Späth <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: AW: Merging observations
Date   Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:34:09 +0100

Hi Jim,

I am wondering if case and person are actually the only identifiers in your data set because they do not uniquely identify your observations, maybe you should check this with the -unique- command first (if not installed type 
-ssc install unique-). Anyway, if they are the only identifiers as you stated in your question, you could try -collape var1 var2 var3, by(case person)-. This, however, will only help if per case and person you have really only one non-missing observation in each variable to be collapsed, as showed in your example. Otherwise, the collapsed mean would be false.

HTH,
Jochen
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Jim O'Grady
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2008 08:57
An: [email protected]
Betreff: st: Merging observations

Hi Folks,

I'm hoping this is a simple question :)

I have a dataset like this:

Case Person var1 var2 var3
345   01         1     .      .
345   01         .      1     .
345   02         .      1     .
345   02         .      .      1

I want to merge the observations which have the same identifiers (case
and person) to get

Case Person var1 var2 var3
345   01         1     1      .
345   02         .      1     1

All help appreciated,

Thanks,

Jim
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