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Re: st: Post codes to locality
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Phil Clayton <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Post codes to locality
Date
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:48:55 -0400
How about:
merge m:1 postcode using lookupfile, keep(match master)
Phil
On 23/04/2012, at 3:41 PM, Paul O'Brien wrote:
> Thanks Kit,
>
> But I get the error message: variable postcode does not uniquely identify observations in the master data
>
> Many of our patients share the same post code.
>
> Paul
>
> On 23 Apr 2012, at 12:28, Christopher Baum wrote:
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>> <>
>> I have a clinical database with postcodes of patients and want to convert the post codes to locality (LSOA). I have a file with corresponding post codes/locality, but there are over 1m post codes in England and around 35,000 localities.
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>> An gen .. if ... command takes for ever.
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>> Is there a simper way?
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>> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/characteristics.html
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>> Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
>> An Introduction to Stata Programming | http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
>> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata | http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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