Dear colleagues,
Thanks to Kolenikov. What I'm doing now is having the questionnaire
number as KEY INDEX, so that I can merge different models at my will.
Yes, the -keep()-option is very helpful. What I'm wondering now is
what's the professional approach to deal with this situation, large
"mother-database" or individual database with different topics?
On 1/25/06, Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you have the funds, SE is certainly worth upgrading. Otherwise,
> keeping the roster as the master set, and merging the topics is
> probably the best option. -merge- is a somewhat more fool-proof and
> advanced operation than -append-, and you can tune it up to your needs
> with options like -keep()-, -unique-, etc. (or whatever the analogues
> of those were with Stata 8, or use Wessie's -mmerge- instead).
>
> On 1/25/06, Jia Xiangping <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > The database I'm doing is based on the questionnaires which have more
> > than 10,000 variables. Because the version I'm using is Intercooled
> > Stata 8, so I have to divide it into several sub-database in terms of
> > topics concerned. At the beginning, I really enjoyed this style
> > because it's convenient for me to process data with similar topic.
> > However, problems come out when I further the data analysis. I have to
> > merge the variables from one database to others, and sometime it's
> > dirty and insecure.
> >
> > Hereinafter there are two options I can envision (may be there are
> > some other alternatives which I don't know):
> >
> > 1. Establish a mother-database with all variables in it, and then
> > -keep- the sections concerned.
> >
> > 2. Still having the sub-database and merge those you are interested in.
> >
> > If the advantages to apply the first approach obviously outweigh the
> > second, I've got to purchase the SE version which can cope with 32,767
> > variables.I have no experience in coping with such a tricky database.
> > Are there anybody who can give me some suggestions on it? Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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> > Xiangping JIA
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