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[ash2000]

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

[andreas_lds]

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@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

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Is this an example of your input-data or the requested result?

[Reeza]

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.