1.1.1980 is ambiguous on whether day.month.year
or month.day.year. No matter; you know, so
di %tw wofd(date("1.1.1980", "dmy"))
or
di %tw wofd(date("1.1.1980", "mdy"))
as appropriate shows a way to proceed.
Given a variable say -mydate-
gen week = wofd(date(mydate, "dmy"))
etc.
Nick
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Martin Ebert
>
> I have a little problem to transform dates in a daily format
> (1.1.1980)
> to dates in a stata elapsed weekly format. Can Stata do this
> proceedure?
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