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Re: st: on converting dates in stata
From
Phil Clayton <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: on converting dates in stata
Date
Sun, 4 Sep 2011 09:36:15 +1000
Not sure if this is the most efficient, but I would:
1. convert it to a string
2. convert the string to a "day" format date using the date() function
3. convert the "day" format date to a "month" format date using the mofd() function
You can do all of the above in a single line. Example:
input date1
200601
200602
200603
200604
end
gen date2=mofd(date(string(date1), "YM"))
format %tm date2
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Phil
On 04/09/2011, at 6:24 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have monthly dates in excel in the following form:
>
>
> 200601
> 200602
> 200603
> 200604
> ...
>
> I upload it in Stata and it appears numeric. I have tried a few options with the date command - but I was unsuccessful in converting the variable in the correct formt (mmyyy).
>
>
> Could you help me on that?
>
> Many thanks,
> Rado
>
>
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