st: Re: how create a year variable

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Giulio Michele Bosio (giulio.bosio)" <giulio.bosio@unimi.it>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>; <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:55 PM
Subject: st: how create a year variable



> Dear all,
>
> I'm working on a panel of administrative data of employment episodes. I 
> have a variable in mdy format (%dD/N/CY) that gives me the beginning of 
> each job spells. I need to use panel routine in Stata and so I would like 
> to know if it's possible to extract from this variable the year to 
> generate a year variable for each observation and how to do this. What 
> commands I have to digit?
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