topic Re: Merge and Center for variable names in SAS Programming

Merge and Center for variable names

pacman94 — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:52:56 GMT

Hello. I have the following dataset

Group_Category	Group	Total	Female	Male	Hispanic	NotHispanic
Group A	GroupA_1	32	16	16	2	30
Group A	GroupA_2	30	14	16	5	25
Group A	GroupA_3	10	6	4	6	4
Group B	GroupB_1	10	9	1	1	9
Group B	GroupB_2	44	20	24	4	40
Group B	GroupB_3	60	20	40	5	55

What I would like to do is modify the variable names for all the groups. Something like this to be outputted eventually to csv or excel and merging Group A and B for their corresponding columns _1, _2, _3.

Category_1	Category_2	Group A			Group B
		GroupA_1	GroupA_2	GroupA_3	GroupB_1	GroupB_2	GroupB_3
Total		32	30	10	10	44	60
Gender	Female	16	14	6	9	20	20
Gender	Male	16	16	4	1	24	40
Ethnicity	Hispanic or Latino	2	5	6	1	4	5
Ethnicity	Not Hispanic or Latino	30	25	4	9	40	55

i have been having no luck thus far. All I could this is to insert a row in the dataset for each group and then rename the original variable name

Re: Merge and Center for variable names

andreas_lds — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:31:20 GMT

Both tables look like reports, not like datasets. Can you post the data used to create the first table? One thing is confusing: the total-line has 32 for GroupA_1, but the rows below sum-up to 64.

Re: Merge and Center for variable names

pacman94 — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:52:10 GMT

Hello. The original data looks like this:

Group_Category	Group	Total	Female	Male	Hispanic	NotHispanic
Group A	GroupA_1	32	16	16	2	30
Group A	GroupA_2	30	14	16	5	25
Group A	GroupA_3	10	6	4	6	4
Group B	GroupB_1	10	9	1	1	9
Group B	GroupB_2	44	20	24	4	40
Group B	GroupB_3	60	20	40	5	55

Female + Male = Total

Hispanic + Not Hispanic = Total