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Six-Month User Retention Cohorts

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Problem

You are given user signup data and Nykaa app activity logs. Write a PostgreSQL query to calculate monthly cohort retention for the first six months after signup. Each cohort is defined by the user's signup month, and a user is retained in month n if they have at least one activity event in the nth month after their signup month. Return the cohort month, cohort size, retained users for months 0 through 5, and retention percentages for those months.

Use the signup month from users.created_at, count only users from the Nykaa App surface, and ignore activity rows where event_date is NULL.

Schema

users
ColumnTypeDescription
user_idPKINTUnique user identifier
created_atDATEUser signup date
acquisition_channelVARCHAR(50)Marketing acquisition source
user_activity
ColumnTypeDescription
activity_idPKINTUnique activity record
user_idINTUser who generated the event
event_dateDATEDate of activity
surface_nameVARCHAR(50)Product surface where activity happened
Tablesusersuser_activity
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