Hello Community,
I just need help getting ideas on how to approach this and it seems simple, but I can only think of inefficient ways to get this done.
I have information dealing with start and end dates but it is currently set up so that if a person comes in multiple times, it's a separate observation in itself
id start end
1 1/1/10 1/10/10
1 2/25/10 3/1/10
kind of like that.
I want to make it so it looks like this
id start1 end1 start2 end2
1 1/1/10 1/10/10 2/25/10 3/1/10
Any guidance would be helpful.
Does efficiency really matter? You only need to transform the data once. Anyway here's one way (assuming your data is sorted by ID):
proc transpose data=have prefix=start out=start_dates;
by id;
var start;
run;
proc transpose data=have prefix=end out=end_dates;
by id;
var end;
run;
data want;
merge start_dates end_dates;
by id;
run;
You will find that some programming tasks are easier, but they now depend on you knowing how many start and end dates you have.
Good luck.
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