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       log:  /Volumes/ecxs2/users/baum/crsp/327evstud1.smcl
  log type:  smcl
 opened on:  19 Feb 2008, 14:45:50


. use crspret, clear

. g caldt = date(date,"MDY")

. format caldt %td

. compress caldt was float now int

. sort permno caldt

. desc

Contains data from crspret.dta obs: 10,657,623 vars: 5 size: 277,098,198 (47.1% of memory free) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- storage display value variable name type format label variable label ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- permno float %9.0g CRSP Permanent Number permco float %9.0g CRSP Permanent Company Number date str8 %8s Date of Observation ret float %9.0g Holding Period Return caldt int %td ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorted by: permno caldt Note: dataset has changed since last saved

. su

Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- permno | 10657623 72581.18 22849.81 10001 93105 permco | 10657623 21437.27 12927.71 5 51568 date | 0 ret | 10528995 .0009371 .0433201 -.9565217 15.955 caldt | 10657623 16041.71 639.1697 14977 17164

. saveold crspret200106, replace file crspret200106.dta saved

. log close log: /Volumes/ecxs2/users/baum/crsp/327evstud1.smcl log type: smcl closed on: 19 Feb 2008, 14:46:24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------