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st: Converting Dates into Numerical Values
Ikram Ullah had problems sending to Statalist. I have
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Ikram Ullah [mailto:[email protected]]
1. I have got different data sets. I want to join these
by using identical variables. There are some identical variables
(but not unique, in some the number varies or there are some
additional observations of these variables) in the those data
sets but the problem is when I use -joinby- or -merge-
command to combine those the message appears * the variable isnot unique*.
what should I do to solve this problem?
I know that in some of datasets the there additional some
additional observations of the variable through which I want
to merge the datasets. Can you help me how shuold I drop the
observations which are not matching or to keep them as missing
values in the dataset which results after merging?
2. Second question is I want to subtract dates (in ddmmyyyy format)
to get the differnece in days.
Whether mathematical operations (adding or subtracting)
can be applied to the dates in this form? If so, how to do
this because generating a new variable which is equal to
difference of two different dates doesnot work?
Or the dates should be coverted to numerical codes before
any kind of mathematical operations.
how to convert normal dates into numerical codes?
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