topic Re: making sure data was entered correctly in SAS Programming

making sure data was entered correctly

gsk — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:46:10 GMT

I have a data set with many race variables, and the variables look like the attached picture.

I want to check if one of them is 'Y', other race variables are 'N', and print out any observations with two or more 'Y' in different race variables.

How do I write such code?

Thank you for the help!

Re: making sure data was entered correctly

Astounding — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:24:07 GMT

If you want to write code, you need to know the names of the variables in your data set.

If you want someone here to write code, you have to tell us the names of the variables.

Re: making sure data was entered correctly

novinosrin — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:31:03 GMT

@Astounding that was hilarious. Made me laugh. Nice one! lol

Re: making sure data was entered correctly

ballardw — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:31:23 GMT

Depending on your actual data usage Hispanic Ethnicity may not exclude any race and some systems with these variable allow for "more than one race" type data.

data want;

set have;

if countc(cats(h,w,b,a,ai,nhopi),'Y') >1;

run;

Where h,w,b,a,ai and nhopi are the names of your race variables and if they are actually character variables.

What this does is combine all of the variables into one string and then countc determines how many times the letter Y is in the result.