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Josie1
Obsidian | Level 7

Help! I have the attached quarterly employment data, I need a method that matches the results from someone else's eviews conversion. I need the middle observation month to equal the quarterly value and the average of all 3 months in the quarter to average to the middle value. I tried changing the months to 2,5,7 and 11 and that didn't work. where am I going wrong?

 

thanks

 

proc expand data=have out=temp1 from=qtr to=month;

id date; convert employmentqrtr / observed=middle; run;

proc expand data=have out=temp2 from=qtr to=month;

id date; convert employmentqrtr / observed=(mi,average); run;

proc expand data=have out=temp4 from=qtr to=month;

id date; convert employmentqrtr / observed=(middle) transformout=(movave 3); run;

proc expand data=have out=temp4 from=qtr to=month;

id date; convert employmentqrtr /TRANSFORMIN=( / 3 ) OBSERVED=average ; run;

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ballardw
Super User

Likely to have a better answer if you provide 1) example of your data and 2) example of the data to "match".

 

Instructions here: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/How-to-create-a-data-step-version-of-your-dat... will show how to turn an existing SAS data set into data step code that can be pasted into a forum code box using the </> icon or attached as text to show exactly what you have and that we can test code against.

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