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Re: st: Using merge with a string id variable
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Using merge with a string id variable
Date
Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:20:35 +0100
Yes. String identifiers as such are not problematic, but note that
matches must be exact as with numeric identifiers. Watch out for
leading and trailing spaces, inconsistencies of case and other
spelling differences.
Note that the difference between numeric and string in Stata is one of
datatype, not format.
Nick
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Edith Felix <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to merge several datasets but their id variable is a string
> variable. Can I successfully merge the datasets with the variable
> still in string format?
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