Re: st: Combining two variables

["Hans J. Baumgartner" <hbaumgartner@diw.de>]

This just changes the format and not the underlying value of the 
variable. I actually used these commands to generate the variable q and y.

Cheers

Hans



Ada Ma schrieb:


> Check out the date format commands.
>
> In the command box type:
>
> view help dfmt
>
>
>
> Hans J. Baumgartner wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> > I have one variable with quarters q (1-4) and one variable with years 
> > y (1950-2004), which I would like to combine into one single variable 
> > newvar that has the values 1999Q2 if y==2 and y==1999.
> >
> > Is there any straight forward command for this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Hans
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