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You don't say what 'with no success' means. For this to work you must
ensure that the ticker and date values are the same datatype in each
dataset. Particularly, make sure that the dates are Stata dates:
integers (as you have daily data) with %td format.
Using the old Stata 10 syntax,
use divdata
sort ticker date
save divdata, replace
use quotedata, clear
sort ticker date
merge ticker date using divdata, unique
tab _merge
This should result in _merge being 3 for the tickers and dates for
which you have dividend payments. _merge==1 is fine, that just means
that the stock traded on many days when a dividend was not paid. You
should not get any _merge==2 as that would be ticker-date combinations
for which you do not have trade information, which should not happen.
If the merge fails, it is probably because the datatypes of your merge
key variables (ticker and date) are not the same, or their contents
are not consistent in the two datasets (a common problem with firm
data).
Kit
On Sep 20, 2009, at 2:33 AM, amatoallah wrote:
I'm confronted to a problem, I' have a database of daily cotations
per enterprises, and another data set that gives the dividends
distributed per enterprises and per dates
I'want to have for each entreprise and per date the daily cotation and
the dividend, I've tried the command merge but with no success, what
I' want is very similar with the job of the excel function vlookup
but this time with two criterions : Enterprise(ticker) and date.
Someone has an idea???
Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Stata Programming
| http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata | http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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