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Enter age in year and month in SPSS
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sarah.eli...@gmail.com
Apr 30, 2017, 4:07:50 PM4/30/17
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Hello. Is is possible to enter a person's chronological age into SPSS using year, month, and day? I am entering data about children. For example, let's say I have a child who was 12 years, 3 months, and 2 days at the time of my study. How do I enter that into SPSS? Do I have to convert the age into months? I'm using SPSS version 24.
Rich Ulrich
May 1, 2017, 12:13:39 AM5/1/17
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:07:49 -0700 (PDT),
sarah.eli...@gmail.com wrote:
>Hello. Is is possible to enter a person's chronological age into SPSS using year, month, and day? I am entering data about children. For example, let's say I have a child who was 12 years, 3 months, and 2 days at the time of my study. How do I enter that into SPSS? Do I have to convert the age into months? I'm using SPSS version 24.
Look up the Date functions and formats.
sarah.eli...@gmail.com wrote:
>Hello. Is is possible to enter a person's chronological age into SPSS using year, month, and day? I am entering data about children. For example, let's say I have a child who was 12 years, 3 months, and 2 days at the time of my study. How do I enter that into SPSS? Do I have to convert the age into months? I'm using SPSS version 24.
The easy way to describe:
Each record should have the date for "today" and for subject's birth.
Use a function to convert today's Year-mo-day to an SPSS date.
Use the same function, ditto, for the Birth Year-mo-day.
Use the available function to obtain the difference in Months or days,
whichever you prefer.
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Rich Ulrich
antranig....@mesrobian.org
Apr 30, 2019, 11:22:37 PM4/30/19
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On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 1:07:50 PM UTC-7, Sarah Fro wrote:
> Hello. Is is possible to enter a person's chronological age into SPSS using year, month, and day? I am entering data about children. For example, let's say I have a child who was 12 years, 3 months, and 2 days at the time of my study. How do I enter that into SPSS? Do I have to convert the age into months? I'm using SPSS version 24.
i have to convert age in number of complete years plus complete months to a single number to Spss ? I am entering data about children. For example, let's say I have a child who was 12 years, 3 months, at the time of my study. How do I enter that into SPSS? Do I have to convert the age into months? I'm using SPSS version 24.
> Hello. Is is possible to enter a person's chronological age into SPSS using year, month, and day? I am entering data about children. For example, let's say I have a child who was 12 years, 3 months, and 2 days at the time of my study. How do I enter that into SPSS? Do I have to convert the age into months? I'm using SPSS version 24.
Bruce Weaver
May 1, 2019, 9:01:57 AM5/1/19
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* Generate a small data set to illustrate.
NEW FILE.
DATASET CLOSE ALL.
DATA LIST LIST / ID years months (3F5.0).
BEGIN DATA
1 12 3
2 11 10
3 12 0
END DATA.
COMPUTE AgeMos = years*12 + months.
COMPUTE AgeYrs = AgeMos/12.
FORMATS AgeMos(F5.0).
VARIABLE LABELS
AgeMos "Age in months"
AgeYrs "Age in years"
.
LIST.
If all subjects are children, age in months might be preferable. But that's up to you.
HTH.
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