sample a similar population?

SASguyCO — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 01:33:14 GMT

I'm not sure this is the correct forum so please someone point me in the right direction if it's not.

I have one population that is distributed a certain way by length of tenure and I'd like to sample from another population such that I end up with the same distribution.

For example I have pop A summarized as follows:

tenure 1 10

tenure 2 30

tenure 3 25

tenure 4 35

and I'd like to randomly sample from pop B (say, 1,000,000 records) so that the 4 tenure buckets distribute just like pop A above so I'd have:

Pop B N

tenure 1 100,000

tenure 2 300,000

tenure 3 250,000

tenure 4 350,000

I imagine there has to be some sort of statistical/sampling PROC to achieve this? If not, perhaps some basic code?

thanks a ton for any assistance!

Re: sample a similar population?

Reeza — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 03:06:12 GMT

proc surveyselect with SAMPRATE option.

Re: sample a similar population?

SASguyCO — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 04:10:04 GMT

Thank you Reeza, can you please provide sample syntax of how this would be accomplished with PROC SURVEYSELECT? I've looked at the documentation and it seems pretty complex.

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