Hi all, I am trying to combine variables across multiple observations. I have four different surveys that all ask the same questions on a likert scale and I would like to combine the answers into one variable.
My data looks like this:
ID a_question b_question c_question d_question
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 1
6 2
I would like my dataset to look like this:
ID abcd_question
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 1
6 2
Thanks for any insight!
Use the coalesce function.
abcd_question=coalesce(a_question,b_question,c_question,d_question);
Use the coalesce function.
abcd_question=coalesce(a_question,b_question,c_question,d_question);
That worked, thanks so much! I thought I had tried that before but I must have had a typo or some other syntax misstep.
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