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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Converting year variable into a date variable |
| Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:09:36 +0000 |
. gen year2 = mdy(12, 31, year) On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Erik Aadland <erikaadland@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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? * * 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/