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A question in my survey asks about the age of respondents. Respondents are asked to choose one of these four ranges:

18-29 30-49 50-64 65 and over

How can I calculate the average age of respondents?

gung - Reinstate Monica
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    Since it's your survey, why don't you change it to ask the age to the nearest year (or even more precisely)? – whuber Jun 06 '16 at 20:36
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    @whuber, people often won't answer survey questions that ask for a specific age, income, etc. – gung - Reinstate Monica Jun 06 '16 at 20:44
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    @gung I understand that--but the question still needs to be asked. Pondering the answer, and *why* we might ask for a range of ages, suggests some effective solutions. In particular, it points to the (strong) advisability of not having any lengthy open-ended bins! It also can suggest creative solutions, such as handing the subject a die and asking them to roll it (privately) and add its value to their age. That would be far more precise than using these wide bins. – whuber Jun 06 '16 at 20:46
  • Not a duplicate of [How to find average and median age from an aggregated frequency table](http://stats.stackexchange.com/q/138103/17230)? – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica Jun 06 '16 at 20:49
  • @Scortchi In what sense is it not a duplicate? – whuber Jun 06 '16 at 20:51
  • Looks exactly like a duplicate to me, but I didn't know if you & @gung had spotted something different. – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica Jun 06 '16 at 20:53
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    @Scortchi This question has been asked three or four times this year alone. There are several duplicates: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/60256, http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/145777, http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/214576, http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/71169, *etc.* – whuber Jun 06 '16 at 20:59

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