Re: st: generate common id

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

First of all, this is not a merge problem in the sense of Stata's
-merge- command. It's an -append- problem.

Second, if you have no household identifier for 2004, then you must do
the combining of waves in some other way.
On the information you have given is it appears impossible to match
households in 2004 except by using other variables.

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:44 AM, lubna <lubnanaz@uok.edu.pk> wrote:

> I am working on three waves (2001,2004 & 2010) of panel  rural household
> data of Pakistan.The problem is that one of the waves(2004)  does not have
> household id which makes it impossible to merge all three waves .Can you
> please guide me that what command in stata can be used to generate common
>  id for all three waves or any other way to merge all three waves in stata.
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