MATCHIT: Stata module to match two datasets based on similar text patterns

Julio Raffo

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: matchit is a tool to join observations from two datasets based on string variables which do not necessarily need to be exactly the same. It performs many different string-based matching techniques, allowing for a fuzzy similarity between the two different text variables.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 12 and freqindex from SSC (q.v.)
Keywords: match; merge; fuzzy match (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04-02, Revised 2020-05-20
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install matchit". 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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