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Re: st: mysterious missing variables after mydate=mdy(month,day,year)
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: mysterious missing variables after mydate=mdy(month,day,year)
Date
Mon, 30 May 2011 17:20:53 +0200
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:43 PM, ABDUL ADAM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I have a panel dataset where my date is in different variables (month, day, year), I am able to create a single date variable by mydate=mdy(month,day,year). But the thing is after generating this new variable, stata returns (132 missing values generated). I tried to see where these missing values lie? but to my surprise, I cannot find them; even after
> su mydate if mydate>=.
> I get zero observations. So, I wonder:
-sum- will only summarize non-missing values, so -su mydate if
mydate>=.- will always return no observations. For this type of
inspection of data I like Ben Jann's -fre- command. In your case I
would type -fre month day year if mydate >= .-. You can install -fre-
by typing in Stata -ssc install fre-
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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