Age and Decimal Date

These data are updated weekly.

Data exist for every visit to the BLSA by every participant.

AGE at visit is calculated to the nearest tenth of a year.

DECDT is the year of visit calculated to the nearest tenth of a year. It can be interpreted as follows:

	.0 = January 1 - February 7
	.1 = February 8 - March 15
	.2 = March 16 - April 21
	.3 = April 22 - May 27
	.4 = May 28 - July 3
	.5 = July 4 - August 8
	.6 = August 9 - September 14
	.7 = September 15 - October 20
	.8 = October 21 - November 26
	.9 = November 27 - December 31

                                          The SAS System        09:22 Friday, October 30, 1998
                                        CONTENTS PROCEDURE
       Data Set Name: LIBRARY.INFOAD                            Observations:         16108
       Member Type:   DATA                                      Variables:            4
       Engine:        REMOTE                                    Indexes:              0
       Created:       14:23 Thursday, October 29, 1998          Observation Length:   32
       Last Modified: 14:23 Thursday, October 29, 1998          Deleted Observations: 0
       Protection:                                              Compressed:           NO
       Data Set Type:                                           Sorted:               NO
       Label:
                           -----Engine/Host Dependent Information-----
             Data Set Page Size:       8192
             Number of Data Set Pages: 64
             File Format:              607
             First Data Page:          1
             Max Obs per Page:         254
             Obs in First Data Page:   229
             Filename:                 DISK$BETA14:[BLS$CDS.BLS$SDF]INFOAD.SASEB$DATA
             Host Format:              AXP
             Disk Blocks Allocated:    1080
                      -----Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes-----
            #    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Label
            
            3    AGE         Num       8     16    Age at Visit
            4    DECDT       Num       8     24    Year of Visit to the Nearest Tenth
            1    IDNO        Num       8      0
            2    VISIT       Num       8      8


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