First note that Maarten's name is indeed Maarten. He's a very helpful
person, but he doesn't like his name being mis-spelled.
Second, why not try working this out for yourself? -help dates and
times- tells you that there a call -qofd(dofm())- that maps months to
days and days to quarters.
Nick
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:04 PM, A.Silva-Montes <as454@kentforlife.net> wrote:
> Dear Marteen,
> Thank you for your reply. However, in order to use that command, I need to create the variable "quarter" using my "month" variable. I know how to do it the long way....but it may be something shorter. Thanks, Andres
> ________________________________________
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] on behalf of Maarten Buis [maartenlbuis@gmail.com]
> Sent: 21 January 2013 15:32
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: create a new variable with quarterly average
>
> bys quarter : egen m = mean(var)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:11 PM, A.Silva-Montes <as454@kentforlife.net> wrote:
>> Dear Statausers,
>>
>> I have monthly expenditure data (I already declared the time series dataset) and I want to create a new variable with the expenditure average by quarter and keep having monthly data (I mean I do not want to "collapse" the dataset). I can do it the long way....can someone help me with a shortcut (any specific stata command)?
>>
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