Hello,
I have two datasets: the first one, called "country" gives some
characteristics of 221 countries (GDP, population...), the second one,
called "safety", contains 24 countries with the variable "safety public
expenditures"
I want to merge these databases, by keeping all the countries. So I write:
...........
use base_pays\country.dta, clear
sort country
merge country using GFS\safety
sort _merge
......
The problem is that Stata accepts to merge (I have no error message), but
indeed my datasets are not merged: the common countries are repeated two
times, and _merge just takes values 1 and 2. So I really don't know what
to do.
Thank you very much for help
Isabelle
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