Rodrigo Brice�o
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> Stata Listers: if one merges two databases, but one
> database has registers
> or observations that are not in the other, this result in
> some missings for
> observations that already has information. Could I avoid this?
I am not clear what kind of answer you expect.
In this situation, you can avoid having observations
with missing data by (1) estimating non-missing values
instead of missing (2) -drop-ping observations with any
missing values. Both can be intensely problematic.
Nick
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