Using age groups for reports

It can be useful to create reports that include age groups. You can create age groups for items as well as for patrons.

The analytics age groups for patrons are specific for analytics and has nothing to do with the patron age groups that are defined in Configuration and used in rules.

Creating age groups for analytics

To create age groups for analytics purposes only:

1. In the Analytics section, select the Settings tab.
2. Click Patron age group or Item age group and Add age group.
3. Add groups that you want to group your data by - you just add a start age - the end age will be according the start age of the next age group.

Creating a report that includes age groups

Once you have created age groups for analytics, you can, for example, create an occasions report using the Circulation data source, and Checkout as occasion. Then add Patron age group as the first level data group.

You can now generate a report where you see the number of checkouts for each age group.

The Item age group can be selected as a sublevel for Stock analysis, Usage rate and Item distrubution and for Unit counts, Items.