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st: Need help programming for dates in Stata
From
Michael Stewart <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Need help programming for dates in Stata
Date
Tue, 5 Mar 2013 13:43:55 -0500
Hi
I have a list of start and stop dates for medications
I am trying to find if there is way to classify them to specifically
say if they are used in particular years
Med Start date Stopdate
xxx 11/12/2009 11/12/2012
yyy . 1/2/2010
zzz 1/1/2009 .
I want to create four variables Used_2009 used_2010 used_2011
used_2012
The criteria is
1)If medication is used even for a day in a year, it is considered to
be used for that year
2)If the start date is blank, then it is deemed to be used from a much
prior day
3)If ending date is blank/missing then that medication is currently active
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Thank you ,
Yours Sincerely,
Mike.
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