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Re: st: RE: re. strings and non-string: the month case
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: re. strings and non-string: the month case
Date
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:22:07 +0000
understanding what it does and doesn't do is important.
Joe is creating a daily date from monthly information alone and then
extracting the month. That works because it is what is wanted, but the
dates themselves are 1 Jan 1960, 1 Feb 1960, and so forth as without a
day of the month Stata assumes 1 and without a year it assumes 1960.
You discard that day and year information in this case, but know how
the trick was done.
Nick
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On 21 November 2013 16:04, Joe Canner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Panos,
>
> In conjunction with -encode-, as suggested by Richard Goldstein, you might want to use the following statement to convert month names to month numbers:
>
> . gen month_num=month(date(MONTH,"M"))
PAPANIKOLAOU P.
> I have got a string variable: MONTH, where records the months of the year (e.g., January, February and so forth) on micro-data basis.
> Would you please assist me how best I would attach a set of label values where 1 refers to January, 2 is for February and so forth.
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