Which Proc should I use to know the number of missing value of character variable?

[vishalrajpoot3]

I know proc means with N and Nmiss option provides the no of populated and missing observation for numeric variable. But which proc/options we use to know the missing value of character variable ?

Lets have the below data set as an example.

data abc;
input name $ state $;
datalines;
a up
b mp
c .
d hp
e .
f mp
. gj
h hp
;
run;

[RW9]

Proc freq with missing option:

https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/statug/63033/HTML/default/viewer.htm#statug_freq_sect01...

[PeterClemmensen]

proc freq data=abc;
   tables state / missing nocum nopercent;
run;

[Ksharp]

PROC SQL.

data abc;
input name $ state $;
datalines;
a up
b mp
c .
d hp
e .
f mp
. gj
h hp
;
run;
proc sql;
select nmiss(name) as nmiss_name,nmiss(state) as nmiss_state
 from abc;
quit;

[Rick_SAS]

For a discussion and examples, see the article "Count the number of missing values for each variable."