Thanks. With the estimates being very different to
what it was when all hires were included, should
surely suggest that firms with < 5 employees were
excluded. I have not done only -merge-. I merged it in
the way I have been doing it for along time. I can
assure you it is the right way.
I am convinced that my estimation is correct. Thanks
for you help anyway.
-- Maarten wrote:
>>Did you look at -tab _merge- to see if the
>>merge was successful? Did you know that -merge-
>>will not delete the firms that hired less than
>>5 employees?
-- Renuka Metcalfe wrote:
>Yes, it was successful. But my estimates are
different
>to when I had included all new hires. Does this
>suggest that it has deleted firms which had hired 5
or
>less employees?
If all you have done is -merge-, than Stata hasn't
deleted anything.
Tell us exactly how you merged, and how you checked
that the merge was successful, and how you estimated
your model. Give use the exact commands you typed.
Maarten
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