How to sort and count children by age

jonwondon

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Hello,

I work at a preschool and we're doing a summer camp ranging ages 5-11. I have a list of 80 kids with their birthdays. I've created a formula that tells me their age based on date of birth.

This list is ever changing and I wanted to make a formula that will divide and count the kids into 4 age groups and look something like this:

5-6:
7-8:
9-10:
11:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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Using a lookup formula and a pivot table.

Book1
ABCDEFGHIJ
1NameDOBAGEGroupAgeGroupGroupName
2 Jonathan9/12/20128.697-855-65-6
3 Ronny3/12/20129.199-1077-8 Anayah
4 Julia5/18/20147.017-899-10 Arwa
5 Carla6/15/201010.939-101111 Emmie
6 Fox4/20/201011.0911 Ethan
7 Theodor9/10/201010.699-10 Madeleine
8 Diyan1/5/201011.3711 Rahma
9 Anayah2/8/20156.285-67-8
10 Frankie2/20/201011.2511 Ayan
11 Michelle6/29/20137.897-8 Forrest
12 Kiyan12/3/20137.467-8 Frazer
13 Noor8/9/20128.787-8 Jannat
14 Rahma8/25/20155.745-6 Jonathan
15 Arwa3/5/20165.215-6 Julia
16 Frazer5/13/20138.027-8 Kiyan
17 Rosemary7/13/201010.869-10 Michelle
18 Jannat5/28/20137.987-8 Noor
19 Emmie6/12/20146.945-69-10
20 Cassius2/9/201110.289-10 Carla
21 Ethan12/9/20146.445-6 Cassius
22 Forrest5/2/20138.057-8 Edmund
23 Ayan11/25/20137.487-8 Kit
24 Kit4/16/201110.109-10 Ronny
25 Madeleine1/29/20156.315-6 Rosemary
26 Edmund4/29/201110.069-10 Theodor
2711
28 Diyan
29 Fox
30 Frankie
31Grand Total
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
A2:A26A2=PROPER(qnm(25))
B2:B26B2=RANDDATE(2010,2016)
C2:C26C2=(NOW()-B2)/365
D2:D26D2=LOOKUP(C2,$F$2:$F$5,$G$2:$G$5)
Dynamic array formulas.
 
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My current solution is just to do it by single didget
Using a lookup formula and a pivot table.

Book1
ABCDEFGHIJ
1NameDOBAGEGroupAgeGroupGroupName
2 Jonathan9/12/20128.697-855-65-6
3 Ronny3/12/20129.199-1077-8 Anayah
4 Julia5/18/20147.017-899-10 Arwa
5 Carla6/15/201010.939-101111 Emmie
6 Fox4/20/201011.0911 Ethan
7 Theodor9/10/201010.699-10 Madeleine
8 Diyan1/5/201011.3711 Rahma
9 Anayah2/8/20156.285-67-8
10 Frankie2/20/201011.2511 Ayan
11 Michelle6/29/20137.897-8 Forrest
12 Kiyan12/3/20137.467-8 Frazer
13 Noor8/9/20128.787-8 Jannat
14 Rahma8/25/20155.745-6 Jonathan
15 Arwa3/5/20165.215-6 Julia
16 Frazer5/13/20138.027-8 Kiyan
17 Rosemary7/13/201010.869-10 Michelle
18 Jannat5/28/20137.987-8 Noor
19 Emmie6/12/20146.945-69-10
20 Cassius2/9/201110.289-10 Carla
21 Ethan12/9/20146.445-6 Cassius
22 Forrest5/2/20138.057-8 Edmund
23 Ayan11/25/20137.487-8 Kit
24 Kit4/16/201110.109-10 Ronny
25 Madeleine1/29/20156.315-6 Rosemary
26 Edmund4/29/201110.069-10 Theodor
2711
28 Diyan
29 Fox
30 Frankie
31Grand Total
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
A2:A26A2=PROPER(qnm(25))
B2:B26B2=RANDDATE(2010,2016)
C2:C26C2=(NOW()-B2)/365
D2:D26D2=LOOKUP(C2,$F$2:$F$5,$G$2:$G$5)
Dynamic array formulas.

Well right now I'm using:

=DATEDIF(D2,TODAY(),"Y") & " Y, " & DATEDIF(D2,TODAY(),"YM") & " M "

To display their Age with month - which puts out something like:

DOB: 10/17/2012
AGE: 8 Y, 7 M

So I'm simply using:

=COUNTIF(E2:E51,"8 Y*")

To count all 8 year olds....etc


How do I include TWO phrases to count? So that I may count "7 Y" & "8 Y" into one category?
 
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I wouldn't use 'DatedIF'. You can get the same effect with a custom number format like this.

Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
A2:A26A2=PROPER(qnm(25))
B2:B26B2=RANDDATE(2009,2015)
C2:C26C2=(NOW()-B2)
D2:D26D2=LOOKUP(C2/365,$F$2:$F$5,$G$2:$G$5)
Dynamic array formulas.


Where column C has a custom number format of 'yy\Y m\M'.

But, you could do it with a formula like this I guess, but I'm not a fan because it's going to be a pain to write a formula like this for each group.

Book1
QRS
18Y 7M2
27Y 9M
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
S1S1=SUMPRODUCT((LEFT(Q1:Q2,2)="8Y")+(LEFT(Q1:Q2,2)="7Y"))
 
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I wouldn't use 'DatedIF'. You can get the same effect with a custom number format like this.

Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
A2:A26A2=PROPER(qnm(25))
B2:B26B2=RANDDATE(2009,2015)
C2:C26C2=(NOW()-B2)
D2:D26D2=LOOKUP(C2/365,$F$2:$F$5,$G$2:$G$5)
Dynamic array formulas.


Where column C has a custom number format of 'yy\Y m\M'.

But, you could do it with a formula like this I guess, but I'm not a fan because it's going to be a pain to write a formula like this for each group.

Book1
QRS
18Y 7M2
27Y 9M
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
S1S1=SUMPRODUCT((LEFT(Q1:Q2,2)="8Y")+(LEFT(Q1:Q2,2)="7Y"))

Your code and work looks great,

However, it seems a bit overly complex. Your code is probably the best way, by far, but I might be sharing this document with others and I cannot always access this thread.

My original thought was:

How do I include TWO phrases to count? So that I may count "7 Y" & "8 Y" into one category?

using

=COUNTIF(E2:E51,"8 Y*")


perhaps something along the lines of

=COUNTIF(E2:E51,"7 Y*" OR "8 Y*")

but that is obviously not working, what would be the working function?
 
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How about
Excel Formula:
=SUM(COUNTIF(E2:E51,{"7 Y*","8 Y*"}))
 
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Glad we could help & thanks for the feedback.
 
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Glad we could help & thanks for the feedback.

The original code is incredible and definitely the more professional route. But again, I work with a team of people who "kinda" know excel - so I know the final function you provided will help them understand better.

Thank you again!
 
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