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2011 Oct 25
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merging to data.frames whose columns are different but follow a pattern.
...ne for each year .
2.) 12 *different* /houshold/ files - again: one for each year
Each file came in the SPSS format (.sav). I implemented all the files in R
an managed (via rename, cbind, rbind, merge etc.) to get *two* files.
The first file is a combination of all 12 /individual/ files orderd by
IDPERS (unique individual identification) and T (=Time 1...12)
The second file contains all houshold waves (1-12) and is orderd by IDHOUS
(unique houshold identification) and T (=1...12).
Now, to the problem:
As the following except shows: the individual id used in the individual file
(IDPERS) is deriv...