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Re: st: Merging based on dates
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Orla Liston <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Merging based on dates
Date
Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:24:00 -0700
figured it out, thanks for the help!!
On 9 June 2011 13:25, Eric Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
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> See this thread for near date merges using -nearmrg- from SSC:
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> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-01/msg00007.html
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> - Eric
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> Eric A. Booth
> Public Policy Research Institute
> Texas A&M University
> [email protected]
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> On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Orla Liston wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to merge two datasets. One of them has numerous
>> observations for each date, while the smaller dataset only has one
>> observation per date. Whilst the dates are mostly the same, there are
>> a few dates which are present in one dataset but not the other.
>>
>> I'm trying to merge them based on the date, but having some trouble,
>> as they obviously don't match up 100%, and also the observations in
>> the smaller dataset will need to be replicated for each of the
>> observations for the dates in the main dataset!
>>
>> I hope this makes sense? Basically I'm trying to match exchange rate
>> data (the smaller dataset) with travelling data (the larger dataset)!
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Orla
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