If I understand this correctly, you think it
unreasonable that, for example,
yofd(date("2006", "mdy"))
returns missing. It seems reasonable to me.
If you say your date variable is "mdy",
Stata shrugs its shoulders at anything that
does not fit what you say.
What you could do is something like this:
gen byear2 = real(dateinc2) if byear == .
and then check that byear2 contains what
you want.
If I'm misunderstanding, please show us
some of the problematic data.
Nick
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Akihito Tokuhara
> I want to strip the dates to get only the 4-digit year
> number, using the
> code below:
>
> generate qyear=date(dateinc2,"mdy")
> format qyear %d /* This formats the qyear into 12july1987 */
> generate byear=yofd(qyear) /* This strips the
> 4-digit year number
> from the date */
>
> But if the dates only has 4-digit number, it does not work.
> Those year
> numbers become missing
> values in new variable.
>
> Is there any way to do all in few codes, including other
> forms of dates
> which are non-missing.
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