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Sorry about the last line in my example, Linn should omit it. If you format
in the fashion I did in that line, Stata thinks that "1" denotes Feburary
(of 1960) which is not your intention...
HTH
Martin
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Use this example:
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clear*
inp str19 date
20090102
20090203
20090405
end
compress
generate double mydate = date(date, "YMD")
format mydate %td
g year=year(mydate)
g month=month(mydate)
g day=day(mydate)
format month %tmmon
list, noobs
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HTH
Martin
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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. April 2009 15:39
An: [email protected]
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Hi
I work with sdv-files where I have a variable displaying dates.
The date is reported as 20090102 etc (January 2nd 2009).
And the variable has storage type str19 and display format is %19s.
My question is how I should make Stata read this as a date, and moreover
being able to generate additional variables indicating week day, week
number, month and year from this variable.
Thanks
Linn
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