build a table with time intervals

[Hazel Lacang]

I have homework in macroeconomics class where I have to make a do file and log file out of the data that was given to us. Now the last step was for me to make a table but it has to have year intervals. I am very new to stata and I only watch youtube videos and search on the internet and our professor isnt so good at explaining either. This is what he wants - Build a table in which you present the average value of the index TS_209 for each of the values of gdp_constant_group and for each period of five years: 1995-1999; 2000-2004; 2005-2009; 2010-2014; 2015-2019.

How do I code that if in the data that was given to us, there are no time intervals and I wasn't asked to generate a new variable for the year intervals?

Thank you in advance if anyone could help me.

[William Lisowski]

I wasn't asked to generate a new variable for the year intervals

It sounds to me as if you have an idea of how to do the tabulation if you had a variable for the time intervals.

Maybe that is the point of the assignment - it's the sort of problem you have to solve in the real world (as opposed to in school), without a professor nearby to tell you all the steps you need to take. So congratulations, I think you're on the right path.