topic Re: How to change Months(character value) into Quarters in SAS Programming

How to change Months(character value) into Quarters

adi121 — Sun, 20 May 2018 07:28:11 GMT

hi ,

im unable to convert month to quarter

data Customers;
input Cust_id Month Spend;
cards;
1 JAN 100
1 FEB 200
1 MAR 300
1 APR
2 JAN 400
2 FEB 100
2 MAR 600
3 JUN 100
;run;

data CUSTOMER_SEGMENTAION;
input CUST_id Segment;
cards;
1 HIGH
2 MOD
3 LOW
4 HIGH
5 MOD
6 LOW
;run;

i want output like

QUARTER	SEGMENT	COUNT_CUST	TOTAL_SPEND
Q1	HIGH
Q1	MOD
Q1	LOW
Q2	HIGH
Q2	MOD
Q3	LOW
……	…………	…………	………..

QUARTER WISE (QUARTER LIKE ( (JAN FEB MAR ) for Q1 and same for q2 and q3

SEGEMENT WISE DISTINCT COUNT OF CUSTOMER AND THERE TOTAL SPEND.

if in month it would been a no then it was possible but here month are in character .

So should i use sum case with it???

Re: How to change Months(character value) into Quarters

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 20 May 2018 07:51:21 GMT

Create a value format that converts Jan,Feb,Mar to Q1 (and so on), and use that in a SQL group by, or create a new variable with it, which you can use in by group processing in proc summary etc.

Re: How to change Months(character value) into Quarters

PaigeMiller — Sun, 20 May 2018 10:52:15 GMT

Use formats to convert your text string months to quarters.

Merge the two data sets.

Use PROC SUMMARY to produce the sums and count of customers.

Also ... hint, hint, hint ... you would be wise to not use text strings such as JAN for months, you make your life simpler if you use numbers for months, 1 is January, 2 is February, and so on, and then converting to quarters is even easier. This advice applies to all calendar data, use either actual numbers, of SAS date values or SAS date/time values, do not use text strings to represent calendar values.

Re: How to change Months(character value) into Quarters

adi121 — Mon, 21 May 2018 04:08:45 GMT

thanks for the reply ,

was able to solve using if else

easy problem it was