Count overlapping months from date ranges

jasonnj1978pwest

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Hi everyone,

Longtime browser of site and this is my first post!!

So I've been struggling with finding a formula that will help me count how many months are overlapping between more than 2 date ranges. Below is a sample of that data I am working with.


I was able to find a formula that would tell me what date spans were overlapping:
Cell H2: =IF(SUMPRODUCT(--(A:A=A2)*--(F:F<G2)*--(G:G>F2))>1,"Overlapping","")

I thought I could use that to then use a formula that would evaluate all the dates and tell me how many months of overlap there are. In this example I would expect 9 months of overlap.

If anyone can help with this I'd greatly appreciate it!!
 

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How do you want to handle partial months? if the overlapping time is from March 20th to June 10th, do you want to see 4 months overlap to include each partial month as a full month or do you want to see 2 for only full partial months? Are you only evaluating 2 date ranges?
 
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Thank you for the reply aaronbens.

Here are the answers to your questions:

1. If there is 1 day or greater overlap then round up to consider it 1 month. I'd want to see 4 months in your example.
2. There are 2 date ranges, an eff_date column and and end_date column. There are several rows of date spans for each unique person_id in my data and the data is sorted by that unique person_id and then by the end_date in ascending order i.e., oldest end date to newest end date.

I tried to post a picture of a small data set example and to attach an excel file of that but I don't have permissions for attachements.
 
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So unique person#1 could have 5 or 10 date ranges listed? If so, you want the sum of the overlap of all the ranges?
 
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[TD]ID_1[/TD]
[TD]ID_2[/TD]
[TD]FIRSTNAME[/TD]
[TD]LASTNAME[/TD]
[TD]EFF_DATE[/TD]
[TD]END_DATE[/TD]
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[TD]76543210[/TD]
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[TD]JANE[/TD]
[TD]DOE[/TD]
[TD]11/1/2013[/TD]
[TD]11/30/2013[/TD]
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[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]01234567[/TD]
[TD]01234567[/TD]
[TD]76543210[/TD]
[TD]JANE[/TD]
[TD]DOE[/TD]
[TD]9/1/2014[/TD]
[TD]3/31/2015[/TD]
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[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]01234567[/TD]
[TD]76543210[/TD]
[TD]01234567[/TD]
[TD]JANE[/TD]
[TD]DOE[/TD]
[TD]3/1/2016[/TD]
[TD]4/30/2016[/TD]
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[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]01234567[/TD]
[TD]01234567[/TD]
[TD]76543210[/TD]
[TD]JANE[/TD]
[TD]DOE[/TD]
[TD]1/1/2017[/TD]
[TD]2/28/2017[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
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[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]01234567[/TD]
[TD]01234567[/TD]
[TD]76543210[/TD]
[TD]JANE[/TD]
[TD]DOE[/TD]
[TD]3/1/2017[/TD]
[TD]9/30/2017[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
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[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]01234567[/TD]
[TD]76543210[/TD]
[TD]01234567[/TD]
[TD]JANE[/TD]
[TD]DOE[/TD]
[TD]5/1/2016[/TD]
[TD]10/31/2017[/TD]
[TD]YES[/TD]
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Sample data of what I'm working with.
 
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Sorry for all the questions. You said you would expect 9 months of overlap, but I only see the last 2 rows as having any overlap and I count 5 months (May, June, July, August, September). Row 5 ends the day before row 6 starts. Am I reading it wrong?
 
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