cprddate: a Stata command to quickly format date variables provided by CPRD

Notes

• cprddate assumes all dates are in DMY format
  • day followed by month followed by year

Installation

cprddate can be installed by copying and pasting the following command in to Stata:

net install cprddate, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pstone22/cprddate/main") replace

Syntax

cprddate varlist

Example

cprddate eventdate sysdate