Re: st: dates in the 'if' condition

[Nick Sanders <sandersn@stanford.edu>]

For greater/less that and equal statements, you can also use the format of the variable in the reference, e.g. for month formatted dates

keep if time > tm(2002m2)

or for quarter

keep if time > tq(2002q2)

Note this doesn't work for date references within graph code (such as in xline under twoway).

Sent from my iPhone - please excuse typos and/or brevity.

On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:20 AM, Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu> wrote:

> <>
> On Aug 10, 2011, at 2:33 AM, Tomas wrote:
> 
>> I have not used Stata in time-series context before and would like to ask
>> a rather simple thing. Having the time variable in a %tq format, it displays the date label but the underlying value
>> is a number. I have tried to condition with the `if' statement referring to the label instead of the underlying value, but to no avail. Is there any way to do so?
>> Here is an example:
>>             storage  display     value
>> variable name   type   format      label      variable label
>> - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> time          float  %tq              
> 
> If time is the variable by which the data are tsset,
> 
> keep if tin(1997q4, 1997q4)
> 
> should work fine.
> 
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