title: How to define data type of a property in neo4j
body: <p>According to <a href="http://neo4j.com/docs/2.1.5/graphdb-neo4j-properties.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">neo4j-datatypes</a> properties have primitive data types. </p>
  
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  <li><p>How can I define the data type when I create properties. For exmple in following query, how can I define the property "age" as a "short" data-type explicitly?</p>
  
  <pre><code>MATCH (e:Employee) SET e.age = 55
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  <li><p>What is the default data type of age as per above query?</p></li>
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