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st: generating age using dates
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martine etienne <[email protected]>
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st: generating age using dates
Date
Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:26:46 -0800 (PST)
Hi Statlisters,
I am trying to generate age using the following variables:
"survey_date"=survey date
"q1_dob2"=date of birth
I started with the following command:
gen nage= survey_date- q1_dob2
gen age= nage/365.4
but I'm stuck at this point because it looks like the numbers are very similar
to each other, ie..I have a sample of 287 and over 200 are 50 plus....
thanks for any help!
martine
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