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| From | "Braunfels, Philipp (Stud. SBE / Alumni)" <P.Braunfels@student.maastrichtuniversity.nl> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: define variable to be date |
| Date | Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:40:44 +0200 |
Dear Statlisters, I reshaped my panel-dataset from wide to long format and now have a variable called "month" that serves as date variable in my dataset (covering 10 years). Now I want to run the <xtset> command but apparently "month" is not identified as date variable by stata (current type is "float"). The variable Month looks as follows: Month 12001 22001 32001 ... 112001 122001 12002 ... I looked at the stata archive but still cannot figure out how I can tell stata that the values (e.g. 12001) are supposed to be dates (e.g. Jan 2001). I tried the command - gen date = date(month, "MY") - but I am returned "(r 109) "type mismatch". I would appreciate any help on this issue. Thanks in advance! * * 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/