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Re: st: Comparing two data set
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Comparing two data set
Date
Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:09:08 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Wed, 2/3/11, Rajaram Subramanian Potty wrote:
> We are carried out a survey and the data from the survey
> was entered two times. Now, we want to compare these two
> data files for possible data etnry errors.
What about -merge-ing these two files on all variables? In
that case _merge == 3 when they are the same and _merge ==
1 and 2 when they are different.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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