Coding date having month and year only

[Chandra Kant Sapkota]

Hello All!
I have date variable with month and year only for e.g. August, 2011. The problem is how to code this variable in Stata.

[Marcos Almeida]

Welcome to the Stata Forum / Statalist.

Please read the FAQ, particularly the topic about sharing data/command/ output.

That being said, provided it is acknowledged by Stata as a date variable, you may get the year as well as the month by using the functions year() and month(), respectively.

In the Stata Manual, I recommend you look for the term "Extracting components of dates and times".

Hopefully that helps.