Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
st: Converting year variable into a date variable
From
Erik Aadland <[email protected]>
To
<[email protected]>
Subject
st: Converting year variable into a date variable
Date
Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:47:19 +0000
Dear Statalist.
I have a panel dataset in which I have the variable -year- that contains values of e.g. 1998, 1999, etc.
I want to make a new -year2- variable and convert this one into a date variable.
In particular, I want to convert each -year2- value into the last date for that year so that e.g. 1998 == 31.12.1998, 1999 == 31.12.1999, etc.
How can this be accomplished?
Any input on this would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Erik.
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/