Re: st: creating a custom monthly date

[Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com>]

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Sounds like it could be a job for -help bcal-.
I'm not sure that I fully understand your decision rules for creating the custom month, but this might get you started without -bcal-:

*******************!
clear
set obs 10000
g date = 15000+runiform()*800 //fake dates
format date %td
duplicates report

gen month = month(date)

clonevar month_new = month
replace month_new = month-1 if  ///
	month(date-2)<month(date) | month(date-1)<month(date) & inrange(dow(date-2), 1, 5)
replace month_new = month+1 if  ///
	month(date+3)>month(date) | month(date+2)>month(date) | month(date+1)>month(date)
g flag = month_new!=month
l if day(date)<2 & flag //check
*******************!

- Eric

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On Apr 21, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Francesco wrote:

> Dear Statalist,
> 
> I have a little problem about the creation a custom date in Stata 12.
> 
> Let me specify what I would like to do : I have a panel dataset with
> daily observations (which may contains multiple identical dates for
> the same id)
> I already know how to obtain the relevant month for each daily date,
> by typing -gen month=mofd(daily_date).
> 
> However, please do not ask me why, I absolutely need to create a
> "custom" month variable that starts 2 days before the end of the
> previous month (in terms of working days) and ends 3 days before the
> start of the next month... I need a way to do that which I can
> reproduce accross different datasets, thus obtaining the same custom
> dates (for a merging purpose)...
> 
> What do you think?
> Could you help me ?
> 
> Many thanks
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