Re: st: business calendar stata: omitting a month

[Kreshna Gopal <kgopal@stata.com>]

Sibel Aydogan <sibel.aydogan20@gmail.com> wants to create a business 
calendar in which all days of January are omitted. Furthermore, Sibel 
wants to know how to omit every day in a specific period.


On 07/17/2013 06:42 AM, Sibel Aydogan wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I’m facing some difficulties with the creation of my business calendar.
>
> I have read the manual of Stata but I cannot find an answer to my questions.
>
> I hope you can help me solve this issue.
>
> I want to delete a whole month: January but I don’t know how I can do this.
>
> How can I omit a whole month?
>
> And how can I omit a certain period p.e. from 1 February till 10 February?
>
> My calendar now looks like this, but I want to omit all days of January too.
>
> version 12
> range 24sept2012 17march2013
> centerdate 24sept2012
> omit dayofweek(Sa Su)


These objectives can be achieved as follows:

1. To omit all days in January, the following line can be added in the 
business calendar file:

    omit dayofweek (Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa) if month(Jan)

However, the above will omit every day of every January. If Sibel wants 
to omit January days of a specific year, say 2013, this can be used:

    omit dayofweek (Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa) if month(Jan) & year(2013)

2. To omit every day in a specific period, say from 01feb2013 to 
10feb2013, the following will work as well:

    from 01feb2013 to 10feb2013: omit dayofweek (Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa)

I hope this helps.

Kreshna Gopal
StataCorp
kgopal@stata.com




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