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st: Change string to year and month date
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"DeMichele, Matthew" <[email protected]>
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st: Change string to year and month date
Date
Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:16:22 -0400
I'm trying to create a date variable using only the year and the month
from a string variable formatted as YYYYMM. For example, 200405 = May,
2004. I ran the syntax below, but this results in DAY appearing in the
first two columns as "01" such that the example above would be
01May2004.
gen DATE_OF_BIRTH3= date(DATE_OF_BIRTH2, "YM")
format DATE_OF_BIRTH3 %td
thank you. Matthew
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