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Re: st: RE: generating age variable


From   "Erik �. S�rensen" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: generating age variable
Date   Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:13:21 -0500

On fredag, nov 22, 2002, at 14:56 America/Montreal, Nick Cox wrote:

Kim Price [HTML deleted!!!]

I would like to create an age variable that subtracts
each dob from a particular date. I looked at the
reference guides and web page, but they were not
helpful in answering this question.
I've tried the following, but they both create missing values.

1)
generate age=mdy(4,15,01-dob)/365.25
The "year" part of mdy has domain 100 to 9999, and should probably be something like 2001 - (year of birth). In both you examplese the year you provide is less than 100 and not valid (see documentation of mdy).


Erik

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Erik �. S�rensen, <http://www.geocities.com/erik_oiolf/>.
phd student (economics), Norwegian School of Economics.
currently visiting Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

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