Johanes,
I can see you are handling with a string variable. You might divide this
variable into two differents variables containing years and months and
multiply 12 times years thereafter:
gen year = substr(varname, 1, 2)
gen month = substr(varname, 3, 2)
destring year month, replace
gen time_in_month = (year*12) + month
See help subtr for more details.
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Schoder
Sent: Lunes, 24 de Agosto de 2009 04:57 p.m.
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Subject: st: survival data analysis- recode survival time variable
Hi,
I am working with survival data and have the problem that my variable
survival time is in the following format:
yymm, where y represents years and m months. Instead of the yymm format
I just want to have it in months since otherwise I always have the jump
from 11 months (0011) to 1 year (0100).
Thank you very much for your help!
Johannes
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