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| From | "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: RE: problem with merge |
| Date | Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:59:27 +0100 |
People who know about -merge- really will want to see 1. the exact syntax you tried 2. a snapshot of the data Why turn this into a word problem in which people have to try to imagine the latter and guess the former? Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Stefano Bonini I have an inextricable issue with merge: I have two datasets: "A" with a list of deals for which I know the investor (investors are duplicated because one investor can easily invest in more than one deal) and B with the full population of investors (hence unique obs) and their characteristics, such as location, assets, etc. Investors are stored by their names therefore those are and must be string variables. I also have missing obs in A (my master) because for some deals I don't know who invested. I am trying to merge the two sets to add the investor's characteristics (contained in B) to each deal. I confidently tried to merge them but the procedure doesn't match. Visual inspection confirms me that there should be matches (I mean, _merge=3) but the command returns just _merge=1 or 2. I checked the formats, blanks and everything i could but I just can't make it work. Any clue on what may cause this weird behavior? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/