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st: date functions: from monthly to quarterly only through daily?
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"Impavido, Gregorio" <[email protected]>
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st: date functions: from monthly to quarterly only through daily?
Date
Fri, 11 May 2012 09:39:45 -0400
Dear all,
I have a string variable containing quarterly dates in the form:
. li date
date
1. Dec1977
2. Mar1978
.....etc.
I want to convert it into quarterly date (Stata format). Is there a better way than the following?
* begin code
gen timem = monthly(date,"MY")
gen timed = dofm(timem)
gen timeq = qofd(timed)
format timeq %tq
* end code
I could not find a -qofm()- function but ideally, I would like to get it in the first line through an the right specification of -quarterly()-
Gregorio
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