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Re: st: create a new variable with quarterly average
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: create a new variable with quarterly average
Date
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:32:02 +0100
bys quarter : egen m = mean(var)
Hope this helps,
Maarten
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:11 PM, A.Silva-Montes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statausers,
>
> I have monthly expenditure data (I already declared the time series dataset) and I want to create a new variable with the expenditure average by quarter and keep having monthly data (I mean I do not want to "collapse" the dataset). I can do it the long way....can someone help me with a shortcut (any specific stata command)?
>
> Thanks, Andres
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