Hi all,

I want extract year from a date variable. No sure how to do this. Appreciate your assistance in advance.

Describe date

storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
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date long %10.0g DATE_Birth

Date in the stata file look like this.

date
26112007
5072007
4032008
7032008
7042008
30012008
25072007
19122007
14092007
10122007
7112007
8112007
20122007

Thanks,