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st: AW: comparing datasets by string variable


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: AW: comparing datasets by string variable
Date   Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:07:44 +0100

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Have you tried to -merge- on the string variable and look at the _merge
variable that Stata generates?



HTH
Martin

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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 13:14
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Betreff: st: comparing datasets by string variable

Dear Statalisters, 

I need to compare two datasets (the first with 4416 obs. and the second with
144000 obs) by a string variable (which after using recast command has now
the same dimension in both datasets). The string variable is something like
"Surname". 

What I need to do is to find which observations, identified by this
variable, belong to both datasets. 

I am afraid that the cf command is useless in this case, since the two
datasets have different dimension. Am I wrong? How can I approach the
problem?

Thank you very much.

Alessandro Gambini


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