st: Multiple Sequential Merges

[Lisa Wang <lhwang0925@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I am unsure as to whether I am applying the merge function correctly
or not. I would like to merge values from multiple spreadsheets/.dta
files into one master sheet "master". Here is the code I have at the
moment:

merge 1:1 ID using "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Data1.dta", force

All good as it will merge all the data into my "master" and then put .
(missing values) for all the observations where it is not matched.
However, if I then run:

merge 1:1 ID using "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Data2.dta", force

then the values from Data2 do not appear in my "master" file even
though the results say it has been merged (i.e. still appears as . )

What I want to achieve is similar to a VLOOKUP in Excel over multiple
sheets but I thought I would just do a merge in STATA instead.

Data1, Data2, Data3...files all have the same columns as each other if
that is any assistance.

Thank you,
Lisa
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