-yq()- ?
Nick
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Hans J. Baumgartner
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
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