how about
. gen year = real( substr( date , 7 , 1 ) )
Look at
. help strfun
for specifics. "date" is the name of the date variable.
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Giulio Michele Bosio (giulio.bosio) wrote:
Dear all,
I'm working on a panel of administrative data of employment episodes. I have a variable in mdy format (%dD/N/CY) that gives me the beginning of each job spells. I need to use panel routine in Stata and so I would like to know if it's possible to extract from this variable the year to generate a year variable for each observation and how to do this. What commands I have to digit?
Than you very much in advance.
Giulio Bosio
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