topic Re: Round age in New SAS User

Round age

NewUsrStat — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:42:10 GMT

Dear all,

suppose to have two dates:

Date of Birth: 01JUL1936

Date of Admission: 03MAR2016

The age at admission calculated as: (Date of Admission-Date of Birth)/365.25 = 79.67.

Since I need an integer, should this age be rounded to 80 or not? If yes, how?

Thank you in advance

Re: Round age

PaigeMiller — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:44:38 GMT

Should it be rounded? Well, that's up to you, it depends on how you intend to use the result.

How to round it?

age_rounded = round(yrdif(date_of_birth,date_of_admission,'AGE'));

Re: Round age

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:17:05 GMT

Use the YRDIF function with its default basis of AGE.
Age is not rounded up for the uses I know. You may have different business rules, though, but only you can know them.

Re: Round age

PaigeMiller — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:48:19 GMT

Good point, @Kurt_Bremser about not rounding up

To round down, you would use the FLOOR function in SAS