Following up on my previous inquiry, is it advisable to use the age range of 60-69 as young-old and 70-79 as old-old when recoding the age variable in my dataset?

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sophia.hern

2 August 2024

Following up on my previous inquiry, is it advisable to use the age range of 60-69 as young-old and 70-79 as old-old when recoding the age variable in my dataset?

Following up on my previous inquiry, is it advisable to use the age range of 60-69 as young-old and 70-79 as old-old when recoding the age variable in my dataset?

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lucas.kim65

2 August 2024

My pleasure.

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sophia.hern

2 August 2024

I understand. Your help is greatly appreciated.

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lucas.kim65

2 August 2024

It's recommended to use either 0 and 1 or 1 and 2 to represent the different categories of young-old and old-old when creating a categorical variable..

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