Hi,
I've a dataset similar to below. I want to assign the Group by value to individual records as shown below.
| Name | Sex |
| Alice | F |
| Barbara | |
| Carol | |
| Jane | |
| Janet | |
| Joyce | |
| Judy | |
| Louise | |
| Mary | |
| Alfred | M |
| Henry | |
| James | |
| Jeffrey | |
| John | |
| Philip | |
| Robert | |
| Ronald | |
| Thomas | |
| William |
|
desired output
| Name | Sex |
| Alice | F |
| Barbara | F |
| Carol | F |
| Jane | F |
| Janet | F |
| Joyce | F |
| Judy | F |
| Louise | F |
| Mary | F |
| Alfred | M |
| Henry | M |
| James | M |
| Jeffrey | M |
| John | M |
| Philip | M |
| Robert | M |
| Ronald | M |
| Thomas | M |
| William | M |
data have;
infile cards truncover;
input (Name Sex) ($);
cards;
Alice F
Barbara
Carol
Jane
Janet
Joyce
Judy
Louise
Mary
Alfred M
Henry
James
Jeffrey
John
Philip
Robert
Ronald
Thomas
William
;
data want;
set have;
retain _s;
if missing(sex) then sex=_s;
else _s=sex;
drop _s;
run;
data have;
infile cards truncover;
input (Name Sex) ($);
cards;
Alice F
Barbara
Carol
Jane
Janet
Joyce
Judy
Louise
Mary
Alfred M
Henry
James
Jeffrey
John
Philip
Robert
Ronald
Thomas
William
;
data want;
set have;
retain _s;
if missing(sex) then sex=_s;
else _s=sex;
drop _s;
run;
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