Thanks, Sebastian. I got it to work using your method and then formating
the new variable:
format variable1 %dN/D/Y
format variable2 %dN/D/Y
so that it would make sense to the human reader.
Terra
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seb Buechte
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Years to dates
Terra Curtis asked for an easy way to create a certain date within a known
year:
I think of one way, eventhough I am not very familiar with time-series data,
I guess it should still work:
(let the variable "year" be the container of your years than it should work
the following way:)
gen variable1=mdy(1,1,year)
gen variable2=mdy(12,31,year)
kind regards
sebastian
On 9/20/05, Terra Curtis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I have a two variables of type %ty (for example, 1998). I wish to
> change
> variable1 to 01/01/1998 and variable2 to 12/31/1998. Is there an easy
> way of doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Terra
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