set a 3-year moving window starting at a given date

[Alexxxxxxx]

Hi,

I am trying to set a 3-year moving window starting at a given date by the following code,

data have;
	infile cards dsd  dlm=",";
	input
	ID $
	publn_date :YYMMDD10.
	earliest_publn_date :YYMMDD10.
	;
	format
   publn_date YYMMDDD10.
   earliest_publn_date YYMMDDD10.
   ;
	cards;
1,1993-09-05,1990-09-04
2,1993-09-04,1990-09-04
3,1993-09-03,1990-09-04
4,1992-09-05,1990-09-04
5,1992-09-04,1990-09-04
6,1992-09-03,1990-09-04
7,1990-09-04,1990-09-04
8,1990-09-03,1990-09-04
	;;;;
run;

proc sql;
	create table want as
	select distinct 
	*
	from have 
        WHERE publn_date <= intnx('year', earliest_publn_date,4) /*a 3-year moving window starting at the earliest publication date  */
	AND publn_date >= earliest_publn_date
	;
quit;

it meanings, for each observation,

if 1) 'publn_date' >= the 'earliest_publn_date' and 

   2) 'publn_date' <= 'earliest_publn_date' + 3-year,

then it should be remain.

By using the earliest_publn_date '1990-09-04' as an example,

1) the earliest 'publn_date' should be as same as earliest_publn_date '1990-09-04',

2) the latest 'publn_date' should be '1993-09-04', it is the 3 years after '1990-09-04',

Namely, I expect to get table want

2,1993-09-04,1990-09-04
3,1993-09-03,1990-09-04
4,1992-09-05,1990-09-04
5,1992-09-04,1990-09-04
6,1992-09-03,1990-09-04
7,1990-09-04,1990-09-04

I expect to exclude obs 8 because publn_date 1990-09-03 is earlier than earliest_publn_date 1990-09-04.

I expect to exclude obs 1 because publn_date 1993-09-04 is the 3 years after '1990-09-04', and 1993-09-05 is later than it.

I failed by using my code, could you please give me some suggestions about this?

thanks in advance.

[PaigeMiller]

I have to say that I don't understand the description of the problem and how the desired output is generated. Can you go through this in a little more detail?

[Alexxxxxxx]

I have rewritten my question, please have a look

[PaigeMiller]

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@Alexxxxxxx wrote:
I have rewritten my question, please have a look

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I am still lost. I don't understand. Your output data set is the same as the input data set except that rows 1 and 8 are removed. It also seems as if the term "3-year moving window" means something different to you than it does to me, but I don't know what you mean.

[RichardDeVen · Accepted solution]

A query with GROUP BY and HAVING clauses will keep the earliest dates together and restrict by publication date.

proc sql;
	create table want as
  select * 
  from have
  group by earliest_publn_date
  having publn_date between earliest_publn_date and intnx('year', min(earliest_publn_date), 3, 'S')
  order by id
	;
quit;

If the data has other ids with an earliest date whose 3-year window overlaps a different ids publication date (in other words an id can be in more than one earliest publication date 3-year window) you may end up needing a self join.