Justin,
You could just extract the year and the month from these, like so:
(Supposing that your current date variable is called -date-)
generate year = real(substr(date,1,4))
generate month = real(substr(date,6,2))
generate paneldate = ym(year,month)
format paneldate %tm
-paneldate- is your new date formatted as a time-series variable that
you can use for panel regressions and time-series analysis.
Hope this helps.
Adrian
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:47 PM
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> Subject: st: Dealing with dates
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>
> I have a panel data set with countries and years in rows. I
> can't declare my
> set to be time series because my dates have decimal points.
>
> Country1 1960.01
> Country1 1960.02
> COuntry2 1960.01
> etc...
>
> How do I get these into workable form for time series analysis?
>
> Thanks
> Justin
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