Thanks for this.
Not to press the point too hard, but the FAQ gives advice on such situations:
"Don't walk away from the thread you started: Continuing or closing a thread you started is important, especially by answering secondary questions and by reporting what solved your problem."
"Much of the benefit of Statalist is that an answer to a question might well interest other people. Thinking that an answer might help many is an incentive to everyone. Or, say you start a thread and then you take it private. Your response is now invisible to others who may be interested in the thread."
... not that such advice should be that needed.
Nick
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Rodrigo Briceño
Thanks for the proposed solution Nick. I will try that.
About the thread it was my mistake to not post to the list, but I just
saw the reply from David. In fact I decided to write him personally to
not bother other members of the list with the thread. David properly
provided me help for solving the issue. I will check the webpage to
see your proposed solution and sorry again.
2008/12/16 Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
> I guess that bimester 1 = Jan-Feb, 2 = Mar-Apr, ..., 6 = Nov-Dec.
>
> Then
>
> gen year0 = cond(phase < 3, 2002, 2004)
> gen bimester0 = cond(phase < 3, phase + 3, cond(phase == 3, 2, phase))
> gen mytime = 6 * (year - year0) + (bimester - bimester0) + 1
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> By the way, Rodrigo: You started a thread on 4 December
>
> <http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.0812/date/article-221.html>
>
> -- and David Elliott and I posted various replies, raising subsidiary questions, but I never saw any reply from you.
>
> Rodrigo Briceño
>
> I need to calculate the amount of bimesters a
> household stay in a program. For that purpose I have three different
> variables:
> 1. Phase of incorporation (phase): it has 6 numeric values where
> 1=july-august 2002, 2=sep-oct 2002, 3=mar-apr 2004, 4=jul-aug 2004,
> 5=sep-oct 2004, and 6=nov-dic 2004
> 2. Two variables that contain the information about the time the
> household dropped the program:
> 2. 1 Year: from 2002 to 2008
> 2. 2 bimester: from 1 to 6
>
> In what way can I calculate the amount of bimesters (or months) that a
> household stayed in the program? Example above (time is the variable
> which values I need):
>
> HH phase year bimester time
> 1 3 2007 2 19 (or 38 months)
> 2 1 2004 1 10 (or 20 months)
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