Re: st: Post codes to locality

["Paul O'Brien" <paul.obrien@afe2.org.uk>]

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.
> 
> An gen .. if ... command takes for ever.
> 
> Is there a simper way?
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> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/characteristics.html
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