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st: Re: extract variable name


From   Kit Baum <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: extract variable name
Date   Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:14:10 -0400

It is not necessary to go through that much work to deal with the two- digit year. Here is a snippet that I wrote yesterday to deal with that problem in a data set which has yr_0, ... yr_4 as date strings in two-digit year format:

forv i=0/4 {
g meet_yr`i' = date(yr_`i',"dm20y")
replace meet_yr`i' = meet_yr`i' - 36525 if meet_yr`i' > 32783
format meet_yr`i' %td
drop yr_`i'
}

The constant 36525 is the number of days in the interval (xx xxx 19xx - xx xxx 20xx).

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On Aug 3, 2005, at 2:33 AM, Jeppe wrote:


Now I want to reshape it to long, but stata fails to read the
two-digit values after the turn of century (00 01 02), so I need to
rename all varibles to a four-digit year.

foreach var of varlist var1_88-var100_02{
    //save name of variable in a local string
    //do nessecary string manipulation (I can do that)
    //rename var
}

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