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Re: st: Creating STATA Date variable
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Creating STATA Date variable
Date
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:41:32 +0100
What's the difficulty?
You know you are dealing with dates. You know Stata has help. -help
dates- points to
gen dailydate = mdy(month, 15, year)
format dailydate %d
Nick
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Venkiteshwaran, Vinod
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a stata data set with two columns that correspond to the month (double, %12.0g) and year(float,%9.0g) of my observations.
> To be honest I do not know what the type and format of the variables imply.
> I want to create a new variable,date, that combines these two variables.
> To complicate matters I also need to set the date itself to the 15th of the month for each observation.
> That is in a mm/dd/yyyy format I want all the dates (dd) to be set to the 15th along with the corresponding month and year that are in my dataset.
> Any inputs /suggestions?
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