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RE: st: Converting year variable into a date variable
From
Erik Aadland <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Converting year variable into a date variable
Date
Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:24:13 +0000
Thank you, Nick!
Kind regards,
Erik.
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> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:09:36 +0000
> Subject: Re: st: Converting year variable into a date variable
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> . gen year2 = mdy(12, 31, year)
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Erik Aadland <[email protected]> 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?
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