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Merging household and individual data set-wave1, 2009-2010

Added by Anita Staneva about 12 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
High
Assignee:
Redmine Admin
Category:
Data analysis
Start date:
01/20/2012
% Done:

50%


Description

I want to merge the data set into one file. I started first with merging all household files. Let’s say I want to merge a_hhsamp with the a_hhresp. I suppose to keep (1 3) of the resulting merge, however I had only merge= 2 3, or I have exactly the number of the first household file in 2, which means the two files were not merged.
I try with distributing household level information to the individual level, where I am using the a_hidp as identifier and follow the example you gave in the documents. Now my merge is fine, but by keeping merge 1 and 3 my sample size increase dramatically and I had duplicate observations.
Next I continue with the I individual files, where I am using a_hidp and a_pno as unique identifier in order to match correctly individual files, however again the resulting merge is not fine.
Could you advise me please how to deal with matching the files? Do you have some users do files which would help us to combine all the data sets from the wave 1, 2009-2010?
Many thanks
Anita

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