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| From | daniel klein <klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Re: Cleaning messy data |
| Date | Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:12:14 +0100 |
Martyn,
based on what you have now, something like the following could work.
replace dpr4 = subinstr(dpr4, "y", "*365", .)
replace dpr4 = subinstr(dpr4, "m", "*28", .)
replace dpr4 = subinstr(dpr4, "d", "", .)
replace dpr4 = subinstr(dpr4, " ", "+")
// note the missing spaces between "*" and "#"
encode dpr4 ,g(new)
qui su new ,mean
forv j = 1/`r(max)' {
qui replace new = `: lab new `j'' if new == `j'
}
This is a little ad-hoc and might neither be the most elegant nor the
fastest solution.
Best
Daniel
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