topic Assigning Status in Survey Data in SAS Procedures

Assigning Status in Survey Data

spg — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:40:04 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to assign a marital status to different individuals looking at their history over the last few years (survey data). I'm only interested in those whose status have remained same all along. So the first individual, was married the first two years and divorced later...and gets dropped out.

Individual 3 gets a status because he entered the survey in 2012...etc.

Person	M_2009	M_2010	M_2011	M_2012	D_2009	D_2010	D_2011	D_2012	STATUS
1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	NA
2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	Married
3				1				1	Married
4			1	0			0	1	NA
5	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	Divorced
6		0	0	0		1	1	1	Divorced
7		1	1			0	0		Married

How do I get at this quickly? I tried some clauses in the data steps, but cannot seem to include every possible combination. I have several thousand records.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Assigning Status in Survey Data

Reeza — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:55:06 GMT

set up two arrays, one for M and one for D. Then see if the max=min of the array is the same and then you know they haven't changed over the survey period.

array marriage(4) m_2009-m_2012;

array divorce(4) d_2009-d_2012;

if max(of marriage(*))=min(of marriage(*)) and max(of divorce(*))=min(of divorce(*)) and max(of marriage(*))=1 then do;

if max(of marriage(*))=1 then status='Married';

else status='Divorced';

end;

else status='NA';

Re: Assigning Status in Survey Data

ballardw — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:33:11 GMT

Unless the example data is incomplete the D variables are completely superflous for this as they are the complement of the M variable.

If sum (of m_2:) = n (of m_2:) then Status='Married';

else if sum (of m_2:)=0 then Status = "Divorced;

else status='NA';

Re: Assigning Status in Survey Data

Ksharp — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:32:42 GMT

data have;

infile cards truncover expandtabs;

input Person M_2009 M_2010 M_2011 M_2012 D_2009 D_2010 D_2011 D_2012;

cards;

1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1

2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

3 . . . 1 . . . 1

4 . . 1 0 . . 0 1

5 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

6 . 0 0 0 . 1 1 1

7 . 1 1 . . 0 0 .

;

run;

data want ;

set have;

array mm{*} m:;

array dd{*} d:;

if (whichn(0,of mm{*})=0 or whichn(1,of mm{*})=0 ) and

(whichn(0,of dd{*})=0 or whichn(1,of dd{*})=0 )

then do;

if whichn(1,of mm{*}) then STATUS='Married ';

else if whichn(1,of dd{*}) then STATUS='Divorced';

end;

else STATUS='NA';

run;

Re: Assigning Status in Survey Data

spg — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:13:49 GMT

Thank you all. Reeza, I tried your code and tweaked it a bit to have correct entries for all three categories (it was giving me only NA and Divorced initially).

KSharp, will try your code today!