Thank you to everyone who replied. Your answers were very helpful, in
the end I used an approach similar to the one below
Sophie
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Gesendet: 19 February 2003 21:15
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Betreff: Re: st: joining variables
gen either=to10la
replace either=to10ra if to10la==.
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Sophie Barthel wrote:
>
> Dear List
>
> I have got the following problem:
>
> >From a set of observations I have created a variable to10la for
people
> whose left eye was measured and a variable to10ra for people whose
right
> eye was measured. Whenever a person appears in the data whose right
eye
> was measured to10la displays a missing value and vice versa. All of
> these are meant to be merged into one variable, however I do not seem
to
> be able to find out how to do this.
>
> Thank you
>
> Sophie
>
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