A little foray into SAS diction: Libraries contain datasets (aka tables) Datasets contain observations (aka records) Observations contain variables (aka columns) Variables contain values
A variable can therefore not contain observations. A table (dataset) might contain zero (no) observations. A variable might contain only missing values, which is probably what you mean. In order to not mislead everybody else, using the correct names for things is mandatory.
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