Re: base year

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you have any confidence that the youngest dob might be a few years 
ago?  After age 100, the numbers drop off very fast, so if you can 
narrow your range from 8 to 108, you can use 1998 as the top year in 
your window.  I have to believe that not many people will be over 108 
years old.



Karen L Hodge/MIS/Genesys wrote:
> I would only perform this code if the value of 'YY' is greater than the
> current year.
> that would narrow down my odds,
> 1)  no one can have a DOB before the current date.
> 2)  there should not be that may people that are over 100 years old.
>
> Karen
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> date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:14:33 -0500
> from: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: RE: Base year
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> > That's true, but if you do that, it'll ALWAYS be 19xx.  You'll never
> get 20xx.
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> True. I'm making an assumption (I know...) that she knows her dataset
> and understands the implications of forcing the 19xx into the date. One
> time conversion maybe?
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