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Re: st: Some basic help on programming
From
Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Some basic help on programming
Date
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:11:29 -0400
Prakash,
Add these lines to the commands from my earlier message:
contract common_id
drop _freq
foreach i of local items {
merge common_id using "item`i'.dta"
drop _merge
sort common_id
}
Friedrich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Prakash Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Friedrich
>
> In the data set we have key using which we can make commonid for firm
> and based on commonid I would like to merge data set.
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Prakash,
>>
>> Please explain how you want to merge the files. Stata has more than
>> one way to combine different datasets.
>>
>> Friedrich
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Prakash Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Thanks a lot Friedrich
>>>
>>> This what I was thinking but I do not have even basic knowledge of
>>> programming in stata so was not able to keep hold of the issue, though
>>> I knew its possible to do it in stata.
>>> One more stupid question, is there way to programme the merging also
>>> for these file as its quite boring kind of do file repeating.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Prakash
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