Combining data with different weights

[NIRMAL SINGH]

Hello everyone,

This is my first time to forum. I would like to learn from others experience.
I have two NIS data sets one from 2013 and one from 2008, both of which has different weights. All the variables are same except weight. How I can combine the data? Any suggestions.

Thanks

[Oded Mcdossi]

What do you mean by different weights, I can think about more than one answer for this. Can you be more specific?
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[Rich Goldstein]

what do you intend to do with the combined file? one simple way would be to append the two files into one (adding a variable showing whether the year was 2008 or 2013); this would then be in what Stata calls "long" form and this form is appropriate for most analyses in Stata - but you don't say what you want to do; note that in long form the different weights are not a problem as each observation has its own weight (but be sure they appear in one variable not in separate variables)