how to write a syntax to compute 'median age' for a population using sas
example
age group population
0-4 200
5-9 250
10-14 320
15-19 600
20-24 435
@ash2000 wrote:
how to write a syntax to compute 'median age' for a population using sas
example
age group population
0-4 200
5-9 250
10-14 320
15-19 600
20-24 435
Is this an example of your input-data or the requested result?
In a case like this you don't really have a good way to find the median.
You can determine the total, which is1805, and the middle is 903ish, which means the 'median' is 15-19.
If you had exact ages you could do an actual calculation, but I don't believe that SAS has a method for computing medians when data is in this format.
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