Setting reference levels with proc surveylogistic

[joachimg]

Hi all. Running logistic regression with proc surveylogistic and I'm having trouble setting my references for the different variables. This is my code:

proc surveylogistic data=masks1;
weight wt_multi;
class d_age_cat2(ref=”0”) d_gender (ref=”MALE”) d_race (ref=”NH White”) d_politics(ref=”DEM“) d_religion2(ref=”NOTHING”) vaxxed(ref=”0”);
model b2_m_always (descending) = age gender race politics religion vaxxed;
run;

And the error message I'm getting:

103

104 proc surveylogistic data=masks1;

105 weight wt_multi;

106 class d_age_cat2(ref=”0”) d_gender (ref=”MALE”) d_race (ref=”NH White”) d_politics(ref=”DEM“)

_______ __________ _____ _________

_____________

22 22 22 22

22

202 202 202 202

202

106 ! d_religion2(ref=”NOTHING”) vaxxed(ref=”0”);

106 class d_age_cat2(ref=”0”) d_gender (ref=”MALE”) d_race (ref=”NH White”) d_politics(ref=”DEM“)

106 ! d_religion2(ref=”NOTHING”) vaxxed(ref=”0”);

_______

22

ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a quoted string, FIRST, LAST.

ERROR 202-322: The option or parameter is not recognized and will be ignored.

106 class d_age_cat2(ref=”0”) d_gender (ref=”MALE”) d_race (ref=”NH White”) d_politics(ref=”DEM“)

106 ! d_religion2(ref=”NOTHING”) vaxxed(ref=”0”);

_______

202

ERROR 202-322: The option or parameter is not recognized and will be ignored.

NOTE: PROCEDURE SURVEYLOGISTIC used (Total process time):

real time 0.00 seconds

user cpu time 0.00 seconds

system cpu time 0.01 seconds

memory 1830.65k

OS Memory 28324.00k

Timestamp 08/30/2021 11:42:09 PM

Step Count 63 Switch Count 0

Page Faults 0

Page Reclaims 243

Page Swaps 0

Voluntary Context Switches 0

Involuntary Context Switches 0

Block Input Operations 0

Block Output Operations 0

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

107 model b2_m_always (descending) = age gender race politics religion vaxxed;

108 run;

109

110

111 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

121

Any help is much appreciated. Proc surveylogistic has really been messing with me......anyways. Thanks in advance. 

[ballardw]

First thing: best practice is to copy/paste text from log into a text box opened on the forum using the </> icon at the top of the message window. This will preserve the text as created. The message windows on this forum will reformat text, such as moving the locations of the diagnostic characters like the underscores that appear under the place SAS determined an error occurs.

Second:

Look very closely at your posted code:

106 class d_age_cat2(ref=”0”) d_gender (ref=”MALE”) d_race (ref=”NH White”) d_politics(ref=”DEM“)

_______ __________ _____ _________

This is the typical programming double quote character: " The quotes you are using are the "smart quotes" that use curly tails and are not recognized as a valid quote for programming in SAS. Change them. Everywhere.

Likely sources of non-programming quotes are if you copied code from a word processor or web page, or used a word processor to create a code file.

I didn't check to see if had bad single quotes but they can occur as well.