Change during years

[yael]

Hello

I am looking for idea,

I have details of 2 groups of firms (A and B). Each firm can be in 1 out of 5 stages, while stage 4,5 represnt decline performace and 2,3 represnt better performance.

I want to check if firm A recovers (from decline performance to better performace) faster than firm B. Any idea how to do it (I do not think that avearge observation in each stage is enough).

Thanks a lot for any help!

[Kurt_Bremser]

Please provide example data in a data step, and an example for the expected result.

[Ksharp]

It looks like you need category data analysis.
Check PROC CATMOD .

[yael]

Thanks, I do not know this procedure, I will check it!