BoardEx

[Marie Hutter]

Dear community,

please excuse this off-topic question, but over the last weeks and months I came to appreciate this forum a lot because of its vivid community and spot-on replies and thus turn to you with a pressing and yet unsolved question about BoardEx. Currently, I am doing some analyses with BoardEx data and realized that, on the one hand, there is a directorid which is shown in the dataset and, on the other hand, an "URL-ID" that appears when you view a director's profile on the BoardEx website. I heard that there is something like a "Linking table" connecting the two of them.
My thesis supervisor wants me to link the two directorID's but I have absolutely no idea how I could accomplish that.

I would appreciate it very much if someone could help me with my problem or refer me to an appropriate forum covering BoardEx-related issues. I already contacted the help desk several days ago, but didn't receive an answer yet.

Thank you!!

Marie

[Phil Bromiley]

This is more of a BoardEx question than a Stata question. If you have something common, you can use merge with the linking tables to connect data sets. You'd merge the linking table with each of the datasets and then merge the two based on the link.