date_to_age_year: Convert dates to one-year age groups

In johnrbryant/demprep: Prepare Demographic Data

Description

Use dates of events and dates of birth to create one-year age groups.

Usage

date_to_age_year(date, dob)

Arguments

date	Dates of events. A vector of class Date, or a vector that can be coerced to class Date using function as.Date.
dob	Dates of birth. A vector of class Date, or a vector that can be coerced to class Date using function as.Date.

Details

date and dob must have the same length, unless one of them has length 1, in which case the argument with length 1 is recycled.

Value

an integer vector with the same length as date or dob, whichever is longer.

See Also

The output from date_to_age_year is often processed further using function format_age_year.

Other functions for creating age groups from dates are date_to_age_quarter and date_to_age_month.

Other functions for creating one-year units from dates are date_to_period_year, date_to_cohort_year, and date_to_triangle_year.

Examples

date_to_age_year(date = c("2024-03-27",
                          "2022-11-09"),
                 dob = c("2001-03-21",
                         "2000-07-13"))

## replicate date of birth
date_to_age_year(date = c("2024-03-27",
                          "2022-11-09"),
                 dob = "2011-05-18")

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