What is the equivalent of Stata's i.var for creating dummy in SAS?

[HannahPhD]

Hi All,

I have an id for my firms(145) but I need to investigate the fix effect of firms on my response variable. In stata, I use i. variablename and I get what I want. I don't want to create 144 dummy variables. Anybody knows what is the way around this? Appreciate it.

Thanks 

[Reeza]

It depends partly on the procedure you're using. Some allow for CLASS variables, which then create the dummy variables. 

Otherwise you need to create them.

Here's a post and a reference to Ricks blog that goes over ways to create the dummy variables.

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Statistical-Procedures/How-to-create-dummy-variables-Categorical-...