ARCHIVED: In SAS, how can I calculate age from the date-of-birth data?
In SAS, date type variables contain the number of days between January 1, 1960, and the date specified. To compute age using a date of birth and the current date, use the following code:
DATA birth; INPUT id birthday MMDDYY6.; today = DATE(); days = today - birthday; age = floor(days / 365); DATALINES; 01 122275 02 010865 03 030586 . . RUN;
The input format MMDDYY6.
specifies month, day, and year
in six digits. You can also use other formats, such as
MMDDYY8.
(e.g., 12/31/68
,
12-31-68
, 12.31.68
, or
12311968
), DDMMYY6.
, and
DDMMYY8.
.
DATE()
returns the current date set in the computer. To
specify a particular day, use the MDY()
function as
follows:
today = MDY(03,31,2008);
The floor
function takes the integer part of age for
colloquial usage, but does not take into account the effect of leap
years. To avoid this problem, use the intck
function by
replacing age = floor(days / 365);
in the above code with:
age = floor ((intck('month',birthday,today) - (day(today) < day(birthday))) / 12);
The intck
function will correct for leap years. The
first part of the command, intck('month',birthday,today)
,
returns the number of times the first day of a month is passed between
birthday and today. To correct for the number of times the same day
of the starting month has passed, the logical test (day(today) <
day(birthday))
is used, resulting in a value of 0 or 1 to be
subtracted from the initial calculation of months. Finally, the
corrected number of months is divided by 12 and rounded to produce the
correct age.
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