Date:         Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:35:22 -0800
Reply-To:     quon@interchange.ubc.ca
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jeffrey Quon <quon@INTERCHANGE.UBC.CA>
Subject:      recoding date of birth
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Apologies in advance if this question proves too elementary, however...
 
I would like to help a colleague analyse a large data set (containing
over 4600 cases). We need to start by tabulating frequencies for
SUBJECTS LESS THAN 1 YEAR OF AGE, and SUBJECTS AGES 1 TO 4 YEARS. The
data are coded in the following manner:
 
> ...for birthday  10195 means
> that the child was born on January 1st, 1995 and  I can get  the age of
> children under 1 yr. by subtracting date of death minus date of birth, but before
> that I have to
> change the format for these two variables (change to 950101 or 01-01-95 for
> example)
 
(I was hoping to use SPSS version 8.0, assuming it will handle a data
set this large).
 
Jeff