| Date: | Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:56:10 -0500 |
| Reply-To: | Art@DrKendall.org |
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| From: | Art Kendall <Art@DrKendall.org> |
| Organization: | Social Research Consultants |
| Subject: | Re: Joining two files |
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Just curious. I had the impression that UK postcodes were very similar
to US zipcodes. From your message it seems they are something else.<br>
What are UK postcodes and why would the be covered under a Data
Protection Act?<br>
<br>
Art Kendall<br>
Social Research Consultants<br>
<br>
John F Hall wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hope you're covered by the Data
Protection Act, otherwise what are you doing with access to postcodes?</font></div>
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Joining two files</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">I have a data set which contains people’s
details, including postcodes and another dataset which contains
postcodes and characteristics of that postcode. The first dataset may
have two more than one occurrence of the same postcode. I want to
apply the postcode characteristics from the second file to the
corresponding records in the first file. Is this possible and if so
how?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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