topic Re: Coverting variable months to years in SAS Programming

Coverting variable months to years

anonymous_user — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:55:35 GMT

Hi,

I have a variable 'Remaining months' but I want this in a year format within proc sql but unsure on how to do this, any ideas please?

example -

Remaining months 60

I want to display 5 years

Re: Coverting variable months to years

RW9 — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:10:09 GMT

Hi,

Simply divide by 12.

data have;

remaining_months=60; output;

run;

proc sql;

create table WANT as

select REMAINING_MONTHS,

strip(put(REMAINING_MONTHS / 12,best.))||" years" as YEARS

from HAVE;

quit;

Re: Coverting variable months to years

anonymous_user — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:18:38 GMT

Thanks,

How do I round it to display 2 years instead of 2.1666666667 years

Re: Coverting variable months to years

RW9 — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:28:59 GMT

With the round function? Alternatively the floor (probably the best one for your scenario) or ceil functions depending on scenario.

To add, any SAS function can be used in a proc sql as long as you are not using pass-through (i.e. sending the sql to a database) as the DB wouldn't know about the SAS functions). In general though there are several of the functions which are present in both SAS and native SQL, round being one of them, though slightly different syntax.

http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_func_round.asp

SQL Functions

Re: Coverting variable months to years

jakarman — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:09:46 GMT

Using a 5.2 format for years instead of best. - The best in this case is not your best. The best is showing as much as possible could make sense.

Re: Coverting variable months to years

Hima — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:56:32 GMT

DATA HAVE;
REMAINING_MONTHS=62;
OUTPUT;
RUN;

PROC SQL;
CREATE TABLE WANT AS
SELECT REMAINING_MONTHS,CATS((REMAINING_MONTHS / 12), "YEARS") AS YEARS FROM HAVE;
QUIT;

PROC PRINT;
RUN;