Dear SAS users, SAS offers a point-and-click system to create a time ID variable from a certain starting date using a particular frequency (e.g. weeks, quarters, years). Since I need to do this proces repeatedly, I like to use a code as it makes things much easier. My data covers 1985-2005 and is divided into quarters (which gives 21 years * 4 quarters = 84 observations). The date variable column should look like this (or any other number which can be formated into a date): Date: 1985/1 1985/2 1985/3 1985/4 etc. Does anyone know how to write a code for this? Thank you very much in advance! Rens (a postgraduate student in sociology)
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