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Re: st: combining surveys
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Phil Clayton <[email protected]>
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Re: st: combining surveys
Date
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:05:10 +1100
I think you're after -append-, eg:
use firstdataset
gen year=2005
tempfile first
save `first'
use seconddataset
gen year=2010
append using `first'
Phil
On 06/02/2012, at 12:30 PM, new user wrote:
> dear statalist
> i have two datasets referred to two different years and collected
> through surveys where each person was interview only in one occasion.
> apart from years and participants, surveys are identical for all the
> variable they include.
> can i combine the surveys (introducing a year dummy)?
> i understand this seems a very basic question, but i would appreciate an answer.
> thanks
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