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st: RE: Combining dates in Stata
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Combining dates in Stata
Date
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:35:51 +0000
-help dates and times- explains this.
You can create a new monthly variable by
gen modate = ym(year, month)
format %tm
I can do this interactively like this on individual numbers
. di ym(2012,1)
624
. di %tm ym(2012,1)
2012m1
Evidently you need to -format- your date variable to make it easily intelligible. I've just shown the laziest format and there are others.
Don't get rid of the original year and month variables. They are likely to remain useful for many purposes.
Nick
[email protected]
natasha agarwal
I have two time variables in my dataset - one for year and one for month.
Both of these variables are numeric with Year containing four-digit
year values and month is a two-digit values ranging from 1 to 12.
I would like to combine the Year and month variables into one a time
variable to allow me to work with the dataset as a panel. How do I
recode (or replace) the Year and Semester month to create one.
Specifically, I would like to have one variable that reads 1/2000 for
january 2000, or 2000m1... I do not really mind the format!
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