topic Re: best SAS procedure to compare similarity of sample to population in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90250#M25764 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It depends... What do you know about your population (e.g. census data) that might be compared to your sample?</P><P></P><P>PG</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:48:45 GMT PGStats 2013-07-25T15:48:45Z best SAS procedure to compare similarity of sample to population https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90249#M25763 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white;"><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;">Is </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #222222;">the SAS SurveyMeans procedure the best procedure to use to compare a set of sample data to the population to</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;"> show whether the sample is a true representation of the population?</SPAN></P><P style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white;"><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;"> </SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:29:39 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90249#M25763 BethOlsen 2013-07-25T14:29:39Z Re: best SAS procedure to compare similarity of sample to population https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90250#M25764 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It depends... What do you know about your population (e.g. census data) that might be compared to your sample?</P><P></P><P>PG</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:48:45 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90250#M25764 PGStats 2013-07-25T15:48:45Z Re: best SAS procedure to compare similarity of sample to population https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90251#M25765 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes. I collected demographic information for my samples that matches demographic categories collected by the U.S. Census Bureau (USCB). I want to know if the people that attended my data collection meetings demographically represent the population of the state. The state demographics are collected by USCB.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:08:23 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90251#M25765 BethOlsen 2013-07-25T18:08:23Z Re: best SAS procedure to compare similarity of sample to population https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90252#M25766 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You could use <STRONG>proc univariate</STRONG> with option<STRONG> LOCATION=</STRONG> to test the mean or median of each continuous variable (age, for example) against the population mean or median. For categorical proportions (sex, for example) you could use <STRONG>proc freq</STRONG> with option <STRONG>TESTP=</STRONG> to compare the proportions in your sample to the population proportions.</P><P></P><P>hth</P><P></P><P>PG</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 26 Jul 2013 02:53:15 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90252#M25766 PGStats 2013-07-26T02:53:15Z Re: best SAS procedure to compare similarity of sample to population https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90253#M25767 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>thanks. Since all of the data I'm using from USCB is categorical, I'll try <SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">using </SPAN><STRONG style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">proc freq</STRONG><SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;"> with option </SPAN><STRONG style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">TESTP=</STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:11:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/best-SAS-procedure-to-compare-similarity-of-sample-to-population/m-p/90253#M25767 BethOlsen 2013-07-26T13:11:42Z