Dear Statalist,


I would like to create a fiscal year variable that take values like 2005-06, 2006-07 and so on till 2018-19, from the variables year, month as given below.
Code:
year    month
2006    Jan
2006    Feb
2006    Mar
2006    Apr
2006    May
2006    Jun
2006    Jul
2006    Aug
2006    Sep
2006    Oct
2006    Nov
2006    Dec
2007    Jan
2007    Feb
2007    Mar
2007    Apr
2007    May
2007    Jun
2007    Jul
---------
---------
2019   Mar
2019   Apr
Can someone help me code this?
Thanks.