Kelly--
Once you have year and month coded for each observation in your data,
and your m1sd and m1ed up through m12sd and m12ed variables set up as
elapsed %tm monthly dates (see -help date functions-), then you could
g date=ym(year, month)
g byte married=0
forv i=1/12 {
replace mar=1 if inrange(date,m`i'sd,m`i'ed) & !mi(m`i'sd,m`i'ed)
}
or somesuch. You may also at some point want a variation on
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-04/msg00798.html
On 6/13/07, Richardson, Kelly K. <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Statalisters,
I have data for one wave that asks people about the month and year
various events took place in their past. For example, what month/year
were you married (assuming ever married) and what month/year did
marriage end (assuming marriage ended). I want to create a data set
that has monthly data for each respondent from 1994-2002. So, let's say
an individual gets married in March of 1998 and divorced in September of
2001. I want to code this individual "0" for all months from January of
1994 through February of 1998; code "1" from March '98 through September
'01, and "0" for October '01 through December of '02.
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