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Re: st: converting date format
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"Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: converting date format
Date
Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:38:43 -0700
If your date is stored as a string, you will need to convert it to
Stata date format first:
. gen date2=date(date,"MDY")
. format date2 %td
Then convert it to year-quarter like this:
. gen yq = qofd(date2)
. format yq %tq
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Bosch, Darrell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I have a dataset with data entered by quarter from 1947 to 2012. The following date variable indicates the dates of each observation (month/day/year).
> 01/01/1947
> 04/01/1947
> 07/01/1947
> ...
> ...
> 01/01/2012
> 04/01/2012
> 07/01/2012
> 10/01/2012
>
> I would like to convert the dates to quarters as follows:
> 1947q1
> 1947q2
> 1947q3
> Etc.
>
> Any suggestions on how to do this would be appreciated.
>
> Darrell Bosch
>
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