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| From | "DeMichele, Matthew" <mdemichele@rti.org> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: Change string to year and month date |
| Date | Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:16:22 -0400 |
I'm trying to create a date variable using only the year and the month from a string variable formatted as YYYYMM. For example, 200405 = May, 2004. I ran the syntax below, but this results in DAY appearing in the first two columns as "01" such that the example above would be 01May2004. gen DATE_OF_BIRTH3= date(DATE_OF_BIRTH2, "YM") format DATE_OF_BIRTH3 %td thank you. Matthew * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/