topic How to calculate the three days’ total before and after the event date? in SAS Programming

How to calculate the three days’ total before and after the event date?

YoYo2015 — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:11:34 GMT

Hello there,

I have a data set as follows:

date Eventdate sales company

20150101 20150105 700 A

20150102 20150105 500 A

20150103 20150105 300 A

20150104 20150105 300 A

20150105 20150105 600 A

20150106 20150105 700 A

20150107 20150105 500 A

20150108 20150105 600 A

20150109 20150105 300 A

20150110 20150105 800 A

20150111 20150105 700 A

20150112 20150105 600 A

20150101 20150109 2000 B

20150102 20150109 2100 B

20150103 20150109 4400 B

20150104 20150109 3200 B

20150105 20150109 1600 B

20150106 20150109 2200 B

20150107 20150109 4200 B

20150108 20150109 2500 B

20150109 20150109 3600 B

20150110 20150109 4700 B

20150111 20150109 3300 B

20150112 20150109 2600 B

20150113 20150109 2300 B

20150114 20150109 3400 B

20150115 20150109 3000 B

20150116 20150109 2100 B

20150117 20150109 3600 B

20150118 20150109 3800 B

I want to calculate the three days’ total before and after the Eventdate. The new data should look like the following:

date Eventdate sales company aftertotal beforetotal

20150101 20150105 700 A 1800 1100

20150102 20150105 500 A 1800 1100

20150103 20150105 300 A 1800 1100

20150104 20150105 300 A 1800 1100

20150105 20150105 600 A 1800 1100

20150106 20150105 700 A 1800 1100

20150107 20150105 500 A 1800 1100

20150108 20150105 600 A 1800 1100

20150109 20150105 300 A 1800 1100

20150110 20150105 800 A 1800 1100

20150111 20150105 700 A 1800 1100

20150112 20150105 600 A 1800 1100

20150101 20150109 2000 B 10600 8900

20150102 20150109 2100 B 10600 8900

20150103 20150109 4400 B 10600 8900

20150104 20150109 3200 B 10600 8900

20150105 20150109 1600 B 10600 8900

20150106 20150109 2200 B 10600 8900

20150107 20150109 4200 B 10600 8900

20150108 20150109 2500 B 10600 8900

20150109 20150109 3600 B 10600 8900

20150110 20150109 4700 B 10600 8900

20150111 20150109 3300 B 10600 8900

20150112 20150109 2600 B 10600 8900

20150113 20150109 2300 B 10600 8900

20150114 20150109 3400 B 10600 8900

20150115 20150109 3000 B 10600 8900

20150116 20150109 2100 B 10600 8900

20150117 20150109 3600 B 10600 8900

20150118 20150109 3800 B 10600 8900

Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot!

Re: How to calculate the three days’ total before and after the event date?

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:18:58 GMT

data step solution:

data intermediate (keep=company aftertotal beforetotal);
set have;
by company;
retain aftertotal beforetotal;
if first.company
then do;
  aftertotal = 0;
  beforetotal = 0;
end;
if eventdate - 3 <= date < eventdate then beforetotal + sales;
if eventdate < date <= eventdate + 3 then aftertotal + sales;
if last.company then output;
run;

data want;
merge
  have
  intermediate
;
by company;
run;

Re: How to calculate the three days’ total before and after the event date?

Ksharp — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 01:49:12 GMT

If your data is not big , you can try SQL.




data have;
input date  : yymmdd10.   Eventdate   : yymmdd10.    sales  company $;
format date  Eventdate  yymmdd10.;
cards;
20150101    20150105      700       A
20150102    20150105      500       A
20150103   20150105      300       A
20150104   20150105       300       A
20150105   20150105        600       A
20150106    20150105       700       A
20150107    20150105       500       A
20150108   20150105      600       A
20150109   20150105       300       A
20150110   20150105       800       A
20150111    20150105      700       A
20150112    20150105      600       A
20150101   20150109      2000      B
20150102   20150109     2100      B
20150103   20150109      4400      B
20150104   20150109      3200      B
20150105   20150109      1600      B
20150106   20150109     2200      B
20150107   20150109     4200      B
20150108   20150109      2500      B
20150109   20150109     3600      B
20150110   20150109      4700      B
20150111   20150109     3300      B
20150112   20150109      2600      B
20150113   20150109     2300      B
20150114   20150109      3400      B
20150115   20150109      3000      B
20150116   20150109    2100      B
20150117   20150109      3600      B
20150118   20150109      3800      B
;
run;
proc sql;
create table want as
 select *,
 (select sum(sales) from have where company=a.company 
  and date between a.Eventdate+1 and a.Eventdate+3) as aftertotal ,
 (select sum(sales) from have where company=a.company 
  and date between a.Eventdate-3 and a.Eventdate-1) as beforetotal
  from have as a;
quit;

Re: How to calculate the three days’ total before and after the event date?

YoYo2015 — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:17:11 GMT

Hi Kurt,

Thank you. Your code works perfectly!

Re: How to calculate the three days’ total before and after the event date?

YoYo2015 — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:23:20 GMT

Hi Keshan,

My data is actually very big. You're always so warm-hearted. Whenever I have a questions about SAS code, I googled the solution first and I see you helped a lot of people here! Thank you!

Re: How to calculate the three days’ total before and after the event date?

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 05:05:36 GMT

The difference between the data step and the SQL solution is that with the data step, the creation of the intermediate sums is done explicitly, while the SQL does it implicitly (albeit with a note about the remerging of summary statistics). It's just that the way that SQL goes about it is often not really performant, and that is the reason why @Ksharp noted a dependency on data set size.

Still it's good to know the SQL way, as you might have to use it when dealing with data in a remote SQL database.

Re: How to calculate the three days’ total before and after the event date?

YoYo2015 — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:20:01 GMT

Hi Kurt,

Thank you so much for explaining the difference. It's really good for a learner like me.