Peggy
I agree with Michael. From the variable descriptions you posted one
can see that the values of exitdate are somehow labeled. As Michael
suggested before you should try the following:
label list exitdate
//To get real dates you could do then:
decode exitdate, gen(str_exitdate)
label values exitdate
replace exitdate = date(str_exitdate,"mdy")
drop str_exitdate
..then you may perform you data replacement for the dates with
year(exitdate)==2006
Regards
Sebastian
On 8/17/07, Michael Blasnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
> I think you misunderstand the problem, there appear to be no observations that
> meet the criteria if year(exitdate)==2006
>
> M Blasnik
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth Rainwater" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 5:29 PM
> Subject: Re: st: dates
>
>
> > Couldn't you just do
> >
> > replace exitdate=16801 if year(exitdate)==2006
> >
> > It works for me:
> > . format junk %dD_m_Y
> >
>
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