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st: RE: merging fuzzy-non-exact data
From
"David Radwin" <[email protected]>
To
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Subject
st: RE: merging fuzzy-non-exact data
Date
Mon, 16 May 2011 16:25:43 -0700 (PDT)
You might try Michael Blasnik's -reclink-, available from SSC.
David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Hoen
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 2:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: merging fuzzy-non-exact data
>
> I am trying to merge two panel data sets from two different data
> storehouses, both of which kept data over the same period of the same
set
> of
> projects. Each dataset has four variables: id, name, year, state. The
> year
> and state will be exact matches in the two datasets, but the names do
not
> exactly match - different naming conventions were used by the two data
> gathering companies. The names will be similar though. The goal would
be
> to create a final linking table that had the id's from both storehouses,
> so
> that in the future I can merge them easily.
>
> Is there any command that allows one to match in a non-exact manner?
>
> Ben
>
> Ben Hoen
> Principal Research Associate
> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
> Office: 845-758-1896
> Cell: 718-812-7589
> [email protected]
> http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/emp/staff/hoen.html
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