Hello SAS communities,
I want to merge a data set of individuals shopping at stores and store information. I have data set of individuals shop at which store and another dataset with store information. The two data sets are not of same size. How can I merge the information of store into the individual shopping data?
Example of my data:
Individual data like this:
id store
1 1
1 2
2 1
3 3
4 2
....
Store data like this:
store location convenience inventory
1 1 7 5
2 4 8 6
3 3 8 5
....
I want a data like this:
id store location convenience inventory
1 1 1 7 5
1 2 4 8 6
2 1 1 7 5
3 3 3 8 5
4 2 4 8 6
....
Thanks!
A tested one-->
data indiv;
input id store ;
cards;
1 1
1 2
2 1
3 3
4 2
;
data store;
input store location convenience inventory ;
cards;
1 1 7 5
2 4 8 6
3 3 8 5
;
proc sql;
create table want as
select a.*,location , convenience , inventory
from indiv a inner join store b
on a.store=b.store
order by a.id, store;
quit;
untested
data want;
merge indiv store;
by store;
run;
sort both the datasets by store before the merge
A tested one-->
data indiv;
input id store ;
cards;
1 1
1 2
2 1
3 3
4 2
;
data store;
input store location convenience inventory ;
cards;
1 1 7 5
2 4 8 6
3 3 8 5
;
proc sql;
create table want as
select a.*,location , convenience , inventory
from indiv a inner join store b
on a.store=b.store
order by a.id, store;
quit;
Again, thank you @novinosrin !
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