Date wizard

[Chelminski, Iwona]

Hi Group,

I want to divide my sample into 4 groups, depending on when they came into
the office ("date_1" is the name of my date variable). What's wrong with
this syntax?
I'm sure the date variable is  presented in some other way--please help.

Thanks in advance,
Iwona

compute season=0.
if ((date_1 GE 03/01/04) and (date_1 LE 05/31/04)) or ((date_1 GE 03/01/05)
and (date_1 LE 05/31/05)) season=1.
if ((date_1 GE 06/01/04) and (date_1 LE 08/31/04)) or ((date_1 GE 06/01/05)
and (date_1 LE 08/31/05)) season=2.
if (date_1 GE 09/01/04) and (date_1 LE 11/30/04) season=3.
if (date_1 GE 12/01/04) and (date_1 LE 02/29/05) season=4.
value labels season 0 'missing' 1 'spring' 2 'summer' 3 'fall' 4 ' winter'.

[Edward Boadi]

Hi Iwona,
The first and subsequent 'IF' statements should read :

if ((date_1 GE DATE.MDY(03,01,2004)) and (date_1 LE DATE.MDY(05,31,2004)) )
or ((date_1 GE DATE.MDY(03,01,2005) )
and (date_1 LE DATE.MDY(05,31,2005)) ) season=1.

Regards.
Edward.


DATE.MDY(7,1,2005).
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Chelminski, Iwona
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Subject: Date wizard


Hi Group,

I want to divide my sample into 4 groups, depending on when they came into
the office ("date_1" is the name of my date variable). What's wrong with
this syntax?
I'm sure the date variable is  presented in some other way--please help.

Thanks in advance,
Iwona

compute season=0.
if ((date_1 GE 03/01/04) and (date_1 LE 05/31/04)) or ((date_1 GE 03/01/05)
and (date_1 LE 05/31/05)) season=1.
if ((date_1 GE 06/01/04) and (date_1 LE 08/31/04)) or ((date_1 GE 06/01/05)
and (date_1 LE 08/31/05)) season=2.
if (date_1 GE 09/01/04) and (date_1 LE 11/30/04) season=3.
if (date_1 GE 12/01/04) and (date_1 LE 02/29/05) season=4.
value labels season 0 'missing' 1 'spring' 2 'summer' 3 'fall' 4 ' winter'.

[Melissa Ives]

You also ignore year, shorten the logic and use:
if (xdate.month(date_1) GE 03 and xdate.month(date_1)LE 05) season=1.
if (xdate.month(date_1) GE 06 and xdate.month(date_1)LE 08) season=2.
if (xdate.month(date_1) GE 09 and xdate.month(date_1)LE 11) season=3.
if (xdate.month(date_1) GE 12 or xdate.month(date_1)LE 02) season=4.

NOTE: you need to change season 4 from 'and' to 'or' since it is the
beginning or end of the month count.

Melissa

-----Original Message-----
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Edward Boadi
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:41 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Date wizard

Hi Iwona,
The first and subsequent 'IF' statements should read :

if ((date_1 GE DATE.MDY(03,01,2004)) and (date_1 LE
DATE.MDY(05,31,2004)) ) or ((date_1 GE DATE.MDY(03,01,2005) ) and
(date_1 LE DATE.MDY(05,31,2005)) ) season=1.

Regards.
Edward.


DATE.MDY(7,1,2005).
-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]On Behalf Of
Chelminski, Iwona
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:33 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Date wizard


Hi Group,

I want to divide my sample into 4 groups, depending on when they came
into the office ("date_1" is the name of my date variable). What's wrong
with this syntax?
I'm sure the date variable is  presented in some other way--please help.

Thanks in advance,
Iwona

compute season=0.
if ((date_1 GE 03/01/04) and (date_1 LE 05/31/04)) or ((date_1 GE
03/01/05) and (date_1 LE 05/31/05)) season=1.
if ((date_1 GE 06/01/04) and (date_1 LE 08/31/04)) or ((date_1 GE
06/01/05) and (date_1 LE 08/31/05)) season=2.
if (date_1 GE 09/01/04) and (date_1 LE 11/30/04) season=3.
if (date_1 GE 12/01/04) and (date_1 LE 02/29/05) season=4.
value labels season 0 'missing' 1 'spring' 2 'summer' 3 'fall' 4 '
winter'.



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[Melissa Ives]

This bounced back and we had been having e-mail problems over the past
day or so, so I'm trying again as I didn't see that it actually arrived
at the list--my PROFUSE apologies if this is a second posting....

Melissa

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You also ignore year, shorten the logic and use:
if (xdate.month(date_1) GE 03 and xdate.month(date_1)LE 05) season=1.
if (xdate.month(date_1) GE 06 and xdate.month(date_1)LE 08) season=2.
if (xdate.month(date_1) GE 09 and xdate.month(date_1)LE 11) season=3.
if (xdate.month(date_1) GE 12 or xdate.month(date_1)LE 02) season=4.

NOTE: you need to change season 4 from 'and' to 'or' since it is the
beginning or end of the month count.

Melissa

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Edward Boadi
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Date wizard

Hi Iwona,
The first and subsequent 'IF' statements should read :

if ((date_1 GE DATE.MDY(03,01,2004)) and (date_1 LE
DATE.MDY(05,31,2004)) ) or ((date_1 GE DATE.MDY(03,01,2005) ) and
(date_1 LE DATE.MDY(05,31,2005)) ) season=1.

Regards.
Edward.


DATE.MDY(7,1,2005).
-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]On Behalf Of
Chelminski, Iwona
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:33 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Date wizard


Hi Group,

I want to divide my sample into 4 groups, depending on when they came
into the office ("date_1" is the name of my date variable). What's wrong
with this syntax?
I'm sure the date variable is  presented in some other way--please help.

Thanks in advance,
Iwona

compute season=0.
if ((date_1 GE 03/01/04) and (date_1 LE 05/31/04)) or ((date_1 GE
03/01/05) and (date_1 LE 05/31/05)) season=1.
if ((date_1 GE 06/01/04) and (date_1 LE 08/31/04)) or ((date_1 GE
06/01/05) and (date_1 LE 08/31/05)) season=2.
if (date_1 GE 09/01/04) and (date_1 LE 11/30/04) season=3.
if (date_1 GE 12/01/04) and (date_1 LE 02/29/05) season=4.
value labels season 0 'missing' 1 'spring' 2 'summer' 3 'fall' 4 '
winter'.



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[Richard Ristow]

At 11:06 AM 11/16/2006, Melissa Ives wrote:

>This bounced back and we had been having e-mail problems over the past
>day or so, so I'm trying again as I didn't see that it actually
>arrived at the list--my PROFUSE apologies if this is a second
>posting....

I've hit this one a few times myself. It's hard to diagnose, if there's
any chance you've missed messages from the list, or if your list
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