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st: reclink -- type mismatch
From
David Sikkink <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: reclink -- type mismatch
Date
Sat, 6 Oct 2012 16:35:43 -0400
Dear Stata users,
When I run reclink to match records across two datasets, I get a type mismatch error. Here is my command and the result:
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reclink varlabel using TestVCVarName1 , idu(VCID) idmaster( QualID) gen(myscore)
1 perfect matches found
Going through 1980 observation to assess fuzzy matches, each .=5% complete
...........type mismatch
r(109);
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Any ideas? I know that "varlabel" does have a lot of special characters in it, but not sure why that would lead to this error, a type mismatch. I have found that any parentheses need to be removed from "varlabel" in order to get reclink to work. But this new error is surprising.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
--David
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David Sikkink
Department of Sociology
University of Notre Dame
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Notre Dame, IN 46556
574.631.2736
[email protected]
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