= Stata Duplicates =

The '''`duplicates`''' command reports on and deletes duplicated cases. 

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== Usage ==

{{{
duplicates drop KEYVARS, force
}}}

To drop true duplicated cases (i.e. ''all'' values match), try `duplicates drop` (no variable list).

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== Stored Results ==

`duplicates report` stores the number of unique observations in `r(unique_value)`.

`duplicates drop` stores the number of rows dropped in `r(N_drop)`

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== See also ==

[[https://www.stata.com/manuals/dduplicates.pdf|Stata manual for duplicates]]



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