st: RE: [binary variable generation in Stata]

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Please use informative titles for your posts. 

Logic and examples for similar problems can be found in several places,
e.g. 

FAQ    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  True and false in Stata
        N. J. Cox
        2/03    What is true and false in Stata?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/trueorfalse.html

FAQ    . . . . . . . . . Logical expressions and missing values
       W. Gould
        2/03    Why is x > 1000 true when x contains missing value?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/values.html

Given a date variable -date-, and a key date, e.g. 28 March 2002, before
and after are just 

. gen byte after28mar2002 = date > mdy(3, 28, 2002) 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
 

shannon steinbring

My problem is I am trying to create a variable (1/0)
based on if the values are greater than a date (1
greater than, 0 less than).  



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