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Re: st: Using merge with a string id variable


From   daniel klein <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Using merge with a string id variable
Date   Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:13:31 +0200

You might also want to read Bill Gould's excellent blog entry,
discussing potenial problems with -merge-.

http://blog.stata.com/2011/04/18/merging-data-part-1-merges-gone-bad/

Best
Daniel

--
Hi all,

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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