Re: st: Combining two variables

["Michael S. Hanson" <mshanson@mac.com>]

(assuming I understand correctly what "y" and "q" are):

		gen date = yq(y,q)
		format date %tq

On Oct 13, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Hans J. Baumgartner wrote:

> 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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