How do you re-code data? Age with decimals into age by full year
 

Hi, I have a data set in which age in years was calcluated from subtracting
"today's date" from the birthdate. The resulting age includes digits below
decimal points. I want to re-code or format the data so the age would be in
integers, but it will always be rounded down -- for example, 5.8 years will
be recoded as 5 years, as well as 5.2 years. What is an easy way to do this
for all cases in the data set? I want this to not only display as integers,
but also be read as integers, so original 5.2 and 5.8s will be read as same
numbers (so I can sort by age, and then sort by another variable within age).
Thank you!

How do you re-code data? Age with decimals into age by full year
 

=INT(your_formula)

or

=ROUNDDOWN(your_formula,0)

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HTH

Bob

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Hi, I have a data set in which age in years was calcluated from
subtracting
"today's date" from the birthdate. The resulting age includes digits
below
decimal points. I want to re-code or format the data so the age would be
in
integers, but it will always be rounded down -- for example, 5.8 years
will
be recoded as 5 years, as well as 5.2 years. What is an easy way to do
this
for all cases in the data set? I want this to not only display as
integers,
but also be read as integers, so original 5.2 and 5.8s will be read as
same
numbers (so I can sort by age, and then sort by another variable within
age).
Thank you!