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Re: st: generate a variable for Project Week
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: generate a variable for Project Week
Date
Mon, 27 May 2013 18:44:28 +0100
The project starts on May 6. That being so, weeks can be numbered
gen week = ceil((1 + date - mdy(5,6,2013))/7)
The logic here is that
date - mdy(5,6,2013)
is 0 .. 6 in the first week, 7..13 in the second week, etc.
and so
1 + date - mdy(5,6,2013)
is 1 .. 7 in the first week, 8..14 in the second week, etc.
and so dividing by 7 gives
1/7 .. 7/7 in the first week, 8/7 .. 14/7 in the second week, etc.
and so -ceil()- applied to that gives 1 in the first week, 2 in the
second week, etc.
The logic here is self-contained, but for more on handling weeks in general, see
Stata tip 111: More on working with weeks, erratum. Stata Journal 12(4)
Stata tip 111: More on working with weeks Stata Journal 12(3)
Stata tip 68: Week assumptions. Stata Journal 10(4)
Nick
[email protected]
On 27 May 2013 18:29, Michael McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote:
> To generate a variable for elapsed Project Week, I have written the following manual commands, in which the first Project Week is May 6, 2013 through May 12, the second week is May 13 through the 19th, and on forward:
>
> gen week=1 if date>=mdy(5,6,2013) & date<mdy(5,12,2013)
> replace week=2 if date>=mdy(5,13,2013) & date<mdy(5,19,2013)
>
> Is there a shorter more elegant way to accomplish this?
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