adding char in var statement

[ralphbenno]

having problem to  add a char variable in my var statement.

I am doing an analysis of data using age,, gender , and rate of mortality and group of year

I want to analyze the mean for group of years for age, gender M, F,C and rate

proc mean

class year

var  gender age rate

I get an error when I add gender

can you help please?

[PGStats]

You got the message

ERROR: Variable Gender in list does not match type prescribed for this list.

The type prescribed for this list is NUMERIC.

[novinosrin]

Rule1: classifification variables or categorical variables sre part of Class statement or BY statement if sorted

rule2: Analysis variables numeric are part of var statement.

Non compliance will result in an error. Hence the case

[ChrisNZ]

> adding char in var statement

What sort of statistics are you going to compute on a CHAR variable?

[ralphbenno]

compute mortality rate for female and male for various year groups

I have 9 years group in column 1 female column 2  rate column 3  male column 4 and rate column 5

the class is  on year

 female rate

male rate

var has rate

I need to add male and female

help?

[Kurt_Bremser]

gender is a categorical variable and needs to be used as class.