Hello, sorry for my bad English. I have a maybe trivial question: I downloaded Data from the FED (monthly) on FX-$/€ and it comes in the following format: 01jan1999, 01feb1999, .... 01march2016 as an Excel-File. Now if I try to tell STATA (under "declare Dataset to be time-series data) that this are monthly observations it gives me:
Variable DATE had been formatted %td (a daily period),
and you asked for a monthly period. Are you sure that is
what you want? It has been done; DATE is now formatted %tm.
And than looks like this:
DATE
3147m2
3149m9
3152m1
3154m8
3157m2
3159m9
3162m3
3164m10
How can I tell STATA that this are already monthly observations that just always have 01 for the 1st of the month attached?
Thank you for your help
Karl
Variable DATE had been formatted %td (a daily period),
and you asked for a monthly period. Are you sure that is
what you want? It has been done; DATE is now formatted %tm.
And than looks like this:
DATE
3147m2
3149m9
3152m1
3154m8
3157m2
3159m9
3162m3
3164m10
How can I tell STATA that this are already monthly observations that just always have 01 for the 1st of the month attached?
Thank you for your help
Karl
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