Hi
I am trying to change the variable "doa" to numeric which is understandle to Sata, the below command did not work. Please advice.

gen edate = date(doa, "md20y")
type mismatch



input int doa
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20970
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20610
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21174
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21165
18860
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17195
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17552
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20810
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20450
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20218
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17585
20426
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20531
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20598
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21182
21209
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19979
.
end
format %dM_d,_CY doa
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