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st: RE: Changing date of birth to age in data editor
Gen today = 15 May 2007
This should read as a string variable
Gen today2 = date(today, "dmy")
This will convert today into elapsed date format
Format today2 %dD_m_Y
This will allow today2 to be shown in the normal way
Then
Gen age = (today2 - dob)/365.25
This should give you age in years with decimals.
Format age %2.0f if you want age as whole numbers.
I might have missed something - good luck
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Slatyer
Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:46
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Changing date of birth to age in data editor
Dear Statists,
Could anyone tell me how to change a data set with dob to present age as
a
new variable please.
Mark Slatyer
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