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st: Problem using date() and format
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Jen Zhen <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Problem using date() and format
Date
Wed, 5 Sep 2012 17:23:20 +0200
Dear Statalisters,
I have a string variable with values 199301, 199302, 199303, ...,
199312, 199401, and so on.
I would like to convert it to a Stata date variable and then format it
so that when I browse the dataset values will be displayed as 1993m1,
1993m2, etc.
It should be totally straightforward after consulting -help date-, yet
I always get displayed wrong dates.
I tried (amongst others):
gen date=date(string,YM)
format date %tm
and at least one of those 2 lines of code must have been wrong, as I
get shown values like 2972m1
What should it be?
Thanks a lot and best regards,
JZ
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