Nobuya,
You can generate the new variable with the command below. This only
works if the original variable is in numeric and not string format.
. gen new = floor(original/1000000)
Friedrich Huebler
--- "FUKUGAWA, N." <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
> I would like to make a change in a variable.
> A new variable keeps only first four figures of ten-digit variable.
>
> original -> new
> 1980000123 -> 1980
> 1996123456 -> 1996
>
> How do I generate such variable using Stata?
> Thank you in advance.
> ---
> FUKUGAWA Nobuya, Ph.D.
> [email protected]
> See my works at www.ssrn.com
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