Re: st: Convert to stata date - stored as a numeric variable

[David Ashcraft <ashcraftd@rocketmail.com>]

Thanks Nick,
I have recoded as per your advice:

gen date2=date(date,"YMD")
generate date1= qofd(date2)
format  date1 %tq

I am getting the following response:

gen date2=date(date,"YMD")
type mismatch

This may be due to the format of date variable. As I mentioned the date variable is numeric not string. what do you recommend?
Regards

David


----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>
To: "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 9:34:55 AM
Subject: Re: st: Convert to stata date - stored as a numeric variable

Your date looks like YMD to me which is what to feed to -date()-. If  
it is really quarterly you need -qofd()- not -mofd()-.



On 12 Sep 2013, at 06:44, David Ashcraft <ashcraftd@rocketmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> My date variable is stored as numeric (double %8.0g). Date format is  
> 20121231 i.e. YYYYMMDD. Stata does not read it as a date. I have  
> tried the following but it seems that I am missing something.
>
> gen date2=date(date,"MDY")
> generate date1= mofd(date2)
> format  date1 %tm
>
> Although my data is quarterly but to be on the safer side I am  
> formatting it as %tm.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> David Ashcraft
> PhD Candidate
> Bangor University
> Bangor, UK.
>
>
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