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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Creating STATA Date variable |
| Date | Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:41:32 +0100 |
What's the difficulty? You know you are dealing with dates. You know Stata has help. -help dates- points to gen dailydate = mdy(month, 15, year) format dailydate %d Nick On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Venkiteshwaran, Vinod <Vinod.Venkiteshwaran@tamucc.edu> wrote: > I have a stata data set with two columns that correspond to the month (double, %12.0g) and year(float,%9.0g) of my observations. > To be honest I do not know what the type and format of the variables imply. > I want to create a new variable,date, that combines these two variables. > To complicate matters I also need to set the date itself to the 15th of the month for each observation. > That is in a mm/dd/yyyy format I want all the dates (dd) to be set to the 15th along with the corresponding month and year that are in my dataset. > Any inputs /suggestions? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/