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sascode
Quartz | Level 8

Hello,

I have a dataset as below. I want to count as total,count cat where it is A and group by year.

Obs year cat12345678910

2018A
2019B
2021C
2019A
2021A
2021B
2018C
2019C
2021A
2021A

 I am using below code but it is not working.

proc sql;
select year,
count(*) as total,
(select count(cat) from try where cat = 'A') as n_a

from try
group by year;
quit;

Above code produced this:

 year total n_a

201825
201935
202155

where total is correctly grouped but n_a is not.

I wanted this code to make to work because there are other ways to solve this issue ,for instance i can use count with " case when".

Thank you.

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sascode
Quartz | Level 8

Thank you,

Unfortunately it does not work.

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ChrisNZ
Tourmaline | Level 20

select count(*) as total
,sum(cat = 'A') as n_a

sascode
Quartz | Level 8

Thank you,

Unfortunately it does not work.

sascode
Quartz | Level 8

My apologise ,

Is working correctly.

Thank you.

Ksharp
Super User
proc sql;
select year,count(*) as total,sum(cat='A') as n_a
from have
group by year;
quit;

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