Dear statalist members,
I'm trying to use a date variable that I imported from an excel spreadsheet that is in the format dd/mm/yyyy, as it follows:
As you can see I'm interested only in month and year, but when I tsset it I have the following result:
but I need it to have the delta to be monthly, but when I try to change it to monthly in the tsset it changes all my dates:
Thank you all in advance.
Gustavo
I'm trying to use a date variable that I imported from an excel spreadsheet that is in the format dd/mm/yyyy, as it follows:
01/01/1998 |
01/02/1998 |
... |
01/11/2012 |
01/12/2012 |
Code:
. tsset inst1 data, daily panel variable: inst1 (unbalanced) time variable: data, 01jan1998 to 01apr2012, but with gaps delta: 1 day
Code:
. tsset inst1 data, month panel variable: inst1 (unbalanced) time variable: data, 3116m9 to 3550m5 delta: 1 month
Gustavo
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