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Re: st: Translate Google Trends date system into Stata date system
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Translate Google Trends date system into Stata date system
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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:37:38 +0100
Yes indeed. You could try -moss- (SSC), but in this case try something like
split awkward, destring parse(-)
gen date1 = mdy(awkward2, awkward3, awkward1)
gen date2 = mdy(awkward5, awkward6, awkward4)
assert date2 == date1 + 6
-split- is a useful command.
Nick
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On 30 April 2013 19:27, Stephen Cranney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get long series of dates I downloaded from Google Trends
> to function in Stata. Unfortunately, Google Trends's way of doing
> dates makes this difficult. An example value from a single
> observation:
> 2004-01-04 - 2004-01-10
>
> This represents the week of January 04, 2004 to January 10, 2010.
> However, Stata is (understandably) reading this as a string variable.
> Is there a way to take variables like this and break them into a
> beginning date and ending date or something similar?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Stephen
>
> --
> Stephen Cranney
>
> PhD Student
> Graduate Group in Demography
> University of Pennsylvania
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