To Kit:
> It seems to me that you want to -append- all of these into a long format
> file, where each record will be uniquely keyed by id -and- year. You can
> then reshape wide, if you wish, to create variables where the same
> individual shows up in the workforce (or not) year by year.
Thank you for your comments.
I'd like to follow your advice.
K.I.
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