NAMECHECK: Stata module to generate Excel list of name mismatches

Christopher Kilby ()
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Christopher Kilby: Villanova University

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: namecheck compares the text in namevar with the text in the same variable in an existing file names.dta in the same directory. You first need to create names.dta. namecheck creates an Excel file (namelist.xlsx) with unmatched names and generates an error code stopping .do file execution. Column A is unmatched names from names.dta; column B is unmatched names from the data in memory. namecheck is useful to compare names (e.g., country names) across data sources to standardize them prior to merging datasets. names.dta must include only one variable with a variable named varname. For example, names.dta might be derived from the World Bank's WDI data with the one variable "countryname". You might have data from another source and want to merge it with WDI data. To do this, you need to first standardize on the country names the WDI uses.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 10
Keywords: data management; text analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-01-07
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install namecheck". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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