Metadata field: age_category
Studies:
- Zhou_2022_MS (3190/3765 samples)
- Dai_2023_child_allergy (2934 samples)
- Valles-Colomer_2023_transmission (2373/2394 samples)
- HMP (2162 samples)
- 418 other studies (84280 samples)
Scope: human
Type: string
Automatically generated field based on age_years and age_range.
Values are from:
- baby (less than 2 years old)
- child (at least 2, less than 12)
- adolescent (at least 12, less than 18)
- adult (18 or older)
or any combination of these four values if the given age range spans multiple categories. (The age_range field also contains "elderly" as a valid value, which is being merged into "adult" in this field.)
| Value | Count |
|---|---|
| adult | 67505 |
| baby | 20571 |
| child | 3622 |
| adolescent | 1461 |
| baby, child | 668 |
| child, adolescent, adult | 602 |
| baby, child, adolescent, adult | 352 |
| child, adolescent | 74 |
| baby, child, adolescent | 54 |
| adolescent, adult | 30 |