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gsk
Obsidian | Level 7 gsk
Obsidian | Level 7

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I have a data set with many race variables, and the variables look like the attached picture.

I want to check if one of them is 'Y', other race variables are 'N', and print out any observations with two or more 'Y' in different race variables.

 

How do I write such code?

 

Thank you for the help! 

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ballardw
Super User

Depending on your actual data usage Hispanic Ethnicity may not exclude any race and some systems with these variable allow for "more than one race" type data.

 

 

data want;

    set have;

    if  countc(cats(h,w,b,a,ai,nhopi),'Y') >1;

run;

 

Where h,w,b,a,ai and nhopi are the names of your race variables and if they are actually character variables.

What this does is combine all of the variables into one string and then countc determines how many times the letter Y is in the result.

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Astounding
PROC Star

If you want to write code, you need to know the names of the variables in your data set.

 

If you want someone here to write code, you have to tell us the names of the variables.

novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

@Astounding   that was hilarious. Made me laugh. Nice one! lolSmiley Tongue

ballardw
Super User

Depending on your actual data usage Hispanic Ethnicity may not exclude any race and some systems with these variable allow for "more than one race" type data.

 

 

data want;

    set have;

    if  countc(cats(h,w,b,a,ai,nhopi),'Y') >1;

run;

 

Where h,w,b,a,ai and nhopi are the names of your race variables and if they are actually character variables.

What this does is combine all of the variables into one string and then countc determines how many times the letter Y is in the result.

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