Hello. I am doing an assignment in which I am supposed to extract and download CPS data from IPUMS site
(https://cps.ipums.org/cps-action/variables/group). The variables in the data set are as follows:
Person Record
Core Demographic Variables
AGE Age
SEX Gender
RACE Race
MARST Marital status
Ethnicity/Nativity Variables
NATIVITY Foreign birthplace or parentage
HISPAN Hispanic origin
Education Variables
EDUC99 Educational attainment, 1990 categories
Work Variables
WKSWORK1 Weeks worked last year
UHRSWORK Usual hours worked per week last year
UNION Union status
PTWEEKS Weeks working part time last year
Income Variables
INCWAGE Wage and salary income
I am having trouble executing a few steps that are required in the assignment. For example, it says to "drop observations for all non-wage earners." What would the code look like in order to do that?
SAS uses an IF statement to remove observations. You could add either of these at the end of your DATA step (and possibly other similar statements):
if wkswork1 > 0;
if incwage > 0;
It's up to you to decide which variables to use, and what conditions will select the proper observations.
SAS uses an IF statement to remove observations. You could add either of these at the end of your DATA step (and possibly other similar statements):
if wkswork1 > 0;
if incwage > 0;
It's up to you to decide which variables to use, and what conditions will select the proper observations.
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