https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/ERROR-Variable-salary-in-list-does-not-match-type-prescribed-for/m-p/316938#M69327 <P>Your SALARY variable is defined as character but you are trying to SUM it which requires it to be numeric. Where did you source SALARY from? You can either source it again as numeric or convert it to numeric in SAS.</P> Tue, 06 Dec 2016 06:29:47 GMT SASKiwi 2016-12-06T06:29:47Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/ERROR-Variable-salary-in-list-does-not-match-type-prescribed-for/m-p/316935#M69324 <P>Proc print data = raj.Employee_new;<BR />VAR id gender bdate educ jobcat salary salbegin salbegin1 jobtime prevexp minority;<BR />SUM salary;<BR />BY gender;<BR />run;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I am facing an error called&nbsp;Variable salary in list does not match type prescribed for this list. Raw data has Salary variable with $ sign.</P> Tue, 06 Dec 2016 05:38:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/ERROR-Variable-salary-in-list-does-not-match-type-prescribed-for/m-p/316935#M69324 rsreddy 2016-12-06T05:38:51Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/ERROR-Variable-salary-in-list-does-not-match-type-prescribed-for/m-p/316938#M69327 <P>Your SALARY variable is defined as character but you are trying to SUM it which requires it to be numeric. Where did you source SALARY from? You can either source it again as numeric or convert it to numeric in SAS.</P> Tue, 06 Dec 2016 06:29:47 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/ERROR-Variable-salary-in-list-does-not-match-type-prescribed-for/m-p/316938#M69327 SASKiwi 2016-12-06T06:29:47Z