Ncdcta00,
Most probably your identifiers are stored as floats (check with -describe pid hid-). These identifiers are very long and should be stored as doubles.
If this conjecture is correct, there is nothing you can do but to get back to the original files, and re-import them correctly.
Hope this helps,
Philippe
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> statalist-digest Monday, December 18 2006 Volume 04
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> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:55:59 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Do you Know ECHP? problem with ECHP (european panel)
>
> Hi, Someone know the echp panel data?
> I merge the dataset personal file with household file, but
> Netherlands, Germany and U.K. have the same pid(personal
> identification num.) in each house and isn't impossible to identify
> the person in the house. is an error in my file (because I have the
> dataset in stata and not in original CSv) or is wrong ECHP?
> thank you very much
> For exp Netherland
> hid pid |
> |--------------------|
> 1. | 409101 64111001 |
> 2. | 409101 64111001 |
> 3. | 409101 64111001 |
> 4. | 409101 64111001 |
> 5. | 409101 64111001 |
> |--------------------|
> 6. | 409101 64111001 |
> 7. | 409101 64111001 |
> 8. | 409101 64111001 |
> 9. | 408301 64111002 |
> 10. | 408301 64111002 |
> |--------------------|
> 11. | 408301 64111002 |
> 12. | 408301 64111002 |
> 13. | 408301 64111002
>
>
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