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Re: st: Converting MM, YY varkables into a date variable
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Converting MM, YY varkables into a date variable
Date
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:46:38 +0000
"Looks like" does not pin it down, but if they really are numeric
variables then
gen date = ym(YY, MM)
will work and if they really are string variables then
gen date = ym(real(YY), real(MM))
will work. You'd want to format that new variable e.g. minimally
format date %tm
Nick
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Jung-eun Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I need help with converting month and year variables into a date variable so that I can use it for a time-series analysis.
> Year variable: YY (looks like 1992, 1993, 1994...)
> Month variable: MM (looks like 1, 2, 3, 4...)
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