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RE: st: create a new variable with quarterly average
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"A.Silva-Montes" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: create a new variable with quarterly average
Date
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:04:48 +0000
Dear Marteen,
Thank you for your reply. However, in order to use that command, I need to create the variable "quarter" using my "month" variable. I know how to do it the long way....but it may be something shorter. Thanks, Andres
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Maarten Buis [[email protected]]
Sent: 21 January 2013 15:32
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: create a new variable with quarterly average
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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