topic Re: selecting data between dates in SAS Programming

selecting data between dates

wschnell1 — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:31:54 GMT

Hi,

I would like to select data between two dates and then exclude certain firms within those dates.

Dates are identified by TRANDATE (i.e. transaction date)

Firm I.D is based of the variable SIC

I tried to perform this in two steps because I wasn't sure how to do this in one.

I keep unfortunately getting error msg's

data subsamp1;

set table1;

if TRANDATE between '01jan1986'd and '31Dec2003'd then delete;

run;

data subsamp2;

set subsamp1;

if 4900<= SIC <= 4999 or

6000<= SIC <= 6999 then delete;

run;

Re: selecting data between dates

Mit — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:40:36 GMT

Hi There,

You have started a new thread. Try this code

data keep reject;
set table1;
if 4900 le SIC le 4999 or 6000 le SIC le 6999 then output reject;
else if '01jan1986'd le TRANDATE le '31Dec2003'd then output reject;
else output keep;

run;

Re: selecting data between dates

wschnell1 — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:56:43 GMT

Thanks so much... as you can probably tell i'm pretty new to this.

Really appreciate the help