Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them

Chapter 8: Tasks Involving Dates

Introduction

Task: Computing a person's age, given his or her date of birth

Task: Computing a SAS date given a month, day, and year (even if theday value is missing)

Conclusion

Introduction

This short chapter includes one of the most common tasks—computing a person's age given a date of birth. Another task discussed is how to compute a SAS date given a month, day, and year. To make the task a bit more interesting, the program presented here uses the 15^th day of the month to compute the date if month is a missing value. Let's get started.

Task: Computing a person's age, given his or her date of birth

Keywords

Age computation

YRDIF function

TODAY function

For this task, you want to compute a person's age as of ...