First Step?

[sydtbro]

The American Heart Association dietary guidelines for healthy American adults recommend a diet that
contains no more than 30% of Calories from fats and that the composition of those fats be <10% of
calories from saturated fatty acids (SFA), up to 10% from polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), and as
much as 15% from monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA).  Using the NHANES 2017-2018 dataset

1) What percent of American adults (20 or older) consume less than 30% of their Calories from all
fats?

I am confused how to compare calories to fat rates

[Reeza]

What are the variables in the data set that relate to calorie consumption, specifically ones that related to fats?

[sydtbro]

Age is AGE – Age in years of the participant at the time of screening. Individuals 80 and over are topcoded at 80 years of age.
​Range 0 – 79
​80 = 80 or older

And fat is
FAT1 – Total fat intake (gm) from first day of food diary

[PaigeMiller]

I think the first step is for you to understand the formula you would use here, as if you were doing it pencil and paper (and not SAS). Once you have that, the next step (doing it in SAS) ought to be relatively simple.