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st: RE: generating age variable


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: generating age variable
Date   Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:56:45 -0000

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 

> and

> 2) 
> generate smpdate=mdy(4,1,01);

> format smpdate %d;

> gen age=(smpdate-dob)/365.25;

> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

You need to tell us what -dob- is, e.g. 
by giving an example. 

Nick
[email protected] 
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