--- Renuka Metcalfe <[email protected]> wrote:
> I then merged this file by sort serno with the main
> employer only file. But the observations always go up
> to about 4660 in my analysis. But the total
> observations are about 7700. But the employer only
> file as I said only had about 2200 observations.
It looks like something going wrong with the merge. After the merge
type -tab _merge- and if there are many non-3s your problem is in the
merge. Most likely the variable serno doesn't match. For more info see:
-help merge-.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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