If I understand your question correctly, then what you want is -joinby- with
the command looking something like
-joinby, unm(m)-
where the master dataset is your first one and the variables you do the join
on need to have same names and be sorted.
Hope that helps,
Daniel
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Riano,
> Alejandro
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:25 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: merge...
>
>
> Dear Statalisters, i have two databases, the first one has monthly data by
> country like this:
>
> country year month var1
> Argentina 1989 1 x
> Argentina 1989 2 x
> . . . .
> . . . .
> Argentina 1999 12 x
>
>
> for some set of countries (103 in total) and i have a second
> database which
> has all the bilateral combinations among the countries that are
> included in
> the first database (on a YEARLY basis), like this:
>
>
> country1 country2 year var2
> Argentina Brazil 1989 x
> Argentina Brazil 1990 x
> . . . .
> . . . .
> Zambia Zimbabwe 1999 x
>
> My problem is that i want to merge the var1 of the first database into the
> second one and in that way trasform my second bilateral base from a yearly
> frecuency to a monthly one. Do you have any idea about how could
> i do this ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance....
>
>
> Alejandro Riano
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