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Re: st: Tsset date
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Tsset date
Date
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:23:19 +0000
In general, it is not a good idea to expect an explanation of an error
message when you don't even tell us what the error message is.
Stata daily date variables must be _numeric_ to be acceptable to
-tsset-. No Stata numeric variable can have a value that is "1960Q1".
However, applying the format %tq to a numeric variable would result in
displays such as "1960q1".
If you literally typed "Tsset s date", that would be an error, as the
command is -tsset-.
I suggest that you show us the results of
describe s date
tsset s date
meaning that you copy exactly what Stata types in the Results window
when given these two commands.
Nick
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Terence Fung <[email protected]> wrote:
> Suppose a variable named 'date' has value = '1960Q1', the panel unit is named 's' whose value =1. I tried: format date %tq
> Tsset s date
> How come an error message pops up? I'm using stata 10.
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