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Re: st: Combining two variables


From   "Michael S. Hanson" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Combining two variables
Date   Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:17:08 -0400

(assuming I understand correctly what "y" and "q" are):

		gen date = yq(y,q)
		format date %tq

On Oct 13, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Hans J. Baumgartner wrote:

This just changes the format and not the underlying value of the variable. I actually used these commands to generate the variable q and y.

Cheers

Hans



Ada Ma schrieb:


Check out the date format commands.

In the command box type:

view help dfmt



Hans J. Baumgartner wrote:

Hi:
I have one variable with quarters q (1-4) and one variable with years y (1950-2004), which I would like to combine into one single variable newvar that has the values 1999Q2 if y==2 and y==1999.

Is there any straight forward command for this?

Thanks in advance

Hans


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