Re: st: imputing dates into a string date

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Just to spell out what will be obvious to Joseph and Tim: Sometimes
other dates provide constraints on what the dates might be.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 7 June 2013 12:51, Joseph Coveney <stajc2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim Evans wrote:
>
> Some time ago I had a problem with imputing dates into a string variable where
> the date took the form:
>
> XX/01/2012
>
> In the thread below a solution was provided which worked great, however, I now
> have data takes the form:
>
> /01/2012
>
> To this, I would like to impute a day of "1", but having tried to amend the
> original code below
>
> g dx_clean = subinstr(dx, "XX", "01", 1)
>
> to
>
> g dx_clean = subinstr(dx, "", "01", 1)
>
> The result is that I return the same value i.e.
> XX/01/2012
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion of how I can handle this please?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If you've got missing elements other than just the day, it might be better to
> use -split-, and impute the days, months and years separately with their
> different defaults.  You can then re-assemble the elements with simple string
> concatenation (or convert the imputed dates to a Stata date).
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
> . version 12.1
>
> .
> . clear *
>
> . set more off
>
> .
> . input str10 dx
>
>              dx
>   1. "01//2001"
>   2. "/01/2001"
>   3. "01/01/"
>   4. end
>
> .
> . split dx, generate(d_) parse(/)
> variables created as string:
> d_1  d_2  d_3
>
> . replace d_1 = "15" if missing(d_1) // Missing days as approx. midmonth
> (1 real change made)
>
> . replace d_2 = "06" if missing(d_2) // Missing months as approx. midyear
> (1 real change made)
>
> . replace d_3 = "2012" if missing(d_3) // Missing year as most recent full year
> (1 real change made)
>
> .
> . generate int imputed_dt = date(d_3 + d_2 + d_1, "YMD")
>
> . format imputed_dt %tdCCYY-NN-DD
>
> .
> . generate str10 clean_dx = d_1 + "/" + d_2 + "/" + d_3
>
> . list dx clean_dx imputed_dt, noobs abbreviate(20)
>
>   +------------------------------------+
>   |       dx     clean_dx   imputed_dt |
>   |------------------------------------|
>   | 01//2001   01/06/2001   2001-06-01 |
>   | /01/2001   15/01/2001   2001-01-15 |
>   |   01/01/   01/01/2012   2012-01-01 |
>   +------------------------------------+
>
> .
> . exit
>
> end of do-file
>
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