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Stata Technical Bulletin

STB-20


I wrote mergedct.ado to avoid these steps. mergedct is just like Stata’s merge command except mergedct combines
the current data set with a raw or dictionary file rather than a .dta-file. The syntax for mergedct is

mergedct VyrrSsst using filename [, automatic byvariable(#)

nolabel u2(aien2me2^) vlist (yrrlisf) ]

Options

mergedct combines the options of infile and merge. The automatic, byvariable(#), and u2(filrname2) options
have the same effect as the infile options automatic, byvariable(#), and usi
ngnrien2me2), respectively. The nolabel
option has the same effect as the merge command’s nolabel option.

The vlist Varl-Isst) option is new. It is used to identify the variables when merging raw (non-dictionary) data files. The
command

. mergedct using rawdata, vlist(x y z)

indicates that the raw data can be read using the following infile command:

. infile x y z using rawdata

Examples

Here’s an example of merging a dictionary file. Note that mergedct does not require the disk data set to be sorted in
advance.

. use dta, clear

. describe

Contains data from dta.dta
Obs:    10 (max= 32766)

Vars:     2 (max=    99)

Width:     6 (max=   200)

1. order         int    %8.Og

2. x            float %9.0g

Sorted by: order
. list

order

x

1.

1

1.605509

2.

2

-1.363875

3.

3

1.255479

4.

4

.6902485

5.

5

.7910749

6.

6

-1.067126

7.

7

1.471047

8.

8

-1.971935

9.

9

1.805707

10.

10

-.5496167

• type

indict1

. det

dictionary {

int

order

float y

10   .7764114

1 -1.849471

2   .4429037

3   2.122414

4   .3309246

5 -.6871347

6   1.272875

7 -.4236486

8 -1.741924

9 -.4869484

. mergedct order using indict1

. list



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