Re: st: converting weekly to monthly data

[Stef Salvez <loggyedy@googlemail.com>]

I have a similar question.  I want to convert values that represent 4
weeks averages to montly averages. Is there a way to do that?

thanks

On 6/28/12, tashi lama <ltashi32@hotmail.com> wrote:
> there isn't a machinery to change weekly to monthly directly. However, you
> could change weekly into daily first and then montly from daily. May be sth
> like this...
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> gen daily=dofw(tw)
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> format daily %td
>
> gen monthly=mofd(td)
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> format monthly %tm
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>
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> Alternatively, you could also do
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>
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> gen monthly=mofd(dofw(tw))
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> format monthly %tm
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>
>
> The codes aren't tested. For more on stata data.... help date in command
> window
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>
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Tashi
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> From: jmale117@hotmail.com
>> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> Subject: st: converting weekly to monthly data
>> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:37:27 +0000
>>
>> hii all i got weekly sales data that i need to convert to monthly, but iam
>> not sure how to do this, as the number of weeks in a month is not exactly
>> 4
>> can any one help
>> my data looks like this
>>
>> 2010 week 1 7677
>> 2010 week 2 5466
>> 2010 week 3 6776
>> ..
>> 2010 week 53 7774
>>
>>
>>
>> 2011 week 1 4567
>> ...
>> 2011 wek 52 4990
>>
>> thanks inadvance
>>
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