Dear all,
Stata 8.2,
I really must apologize for asking this query. I am on the road for a few days and do not have access to my Stata manuals. Much to my annoyance I discovered that I have not dealt with one of the variable (called duration) in the form of hh:mm e.g. 01:55 i.e. duration of an event that lasted an hour and fifty five minutes. I am sure this would have been described somewhere in the manuals.
As it stands, the variable is thus described: str8 %9s.
I tried to look at the stata on-line help on date and time and something i thought would be good i.e. str2time to see how I can convert this to time duration that I can subsequently analyze (e.g. to be able summarize or create categories) but without success.
I would therefore be grateful for any advice/help on how to convert this string variable to a form or format that stata can recognise as time hh:mm or better still to just convert them to integers e.g. 01:55 would then become 115 (minutes) - an integer. Of course any other suggestions would be valued.
Thank you,
bw
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