Hi, I have some data that looks something like this:
data have1;
input ID question$ subcat$ response$;
datalines;
1 Q1 a Y
1 Q1 b Y
1 Q1 c Y
1 Q2 a Y
1 Q2 b Y
1 Q2 c N
1 Q2 d N
1 Q2 e Y
2 Q1 a N
2 Q1 b Y
2 Q1 c Y
2 Q2 a N
2 Q2 b Y
2 Q2 c N
2 Q2 d N
2 Q2 e Y
;
run;
I need the data to look like this:
Q1 | Q2 | |||||||
ID | a | b | c | a | b | c | d | e |
1 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y |
2 | N | Y | Y | N | Y | N | N | Y |
How do we make the response variable output to the cell?
How about this one ?
data have1;
input ID question $ subcat $ response $;
datalines;
1 Q1 a Y
1 Q1 b Y
1 Q1 c Y
1 Q2 a Y
1 Q2 b Y
1 Q2 c N
1 Q2 d N
1 Q2 e Y
2 Q1 a N
2 Q1 b Y
2 Q1 c Y
2 Q2 a N
2 Q2 b Y
2 Q2 c N
2 Q2 d N
2 Q2 e Y
;
proc report data=have1 nowd ;
columns ('ID' id) question,subcat,response;
define id/group ' ';
define question/across ' ' nozero;
define subcat/across ' ' nozero;
define response/group ' ' nozero ;
run;
I don't think you can have character values Y and N underneath across variables, unless you make them numeric and formatted to produce Y and N.
data have1;
input ID question$ subcat$ response$;
if response='Y' then numeric_Response=1;
else numeric_response=0;
datalines;
1 Q1 a Y
1 Q1 b Y
1 Q1 c Y
1 Q2 a Y
1 Q2 b Y
1 Q2 c N
1 Q2 d N
1 Q2 e Y
2 Q1 a N
2 Q1 b Y
2 Q1 c Y
2 Q2 a N
2 Q2 b Y
2 Q2 c N
2 Q2 d N
2 Q2 e Y
;
proc format;
value nf 1='Y' 0='N';
run;
proc report data=have1 nocompletecols;
columns ("ID" id) question,subcat,numeric_response;
define id/group ' ';
define question/across;
define subcat/across;
define numeric_response/sum ' ' format=nf.;
run;
How about this one ?
data have1;
input ID question $ subcat $ response $;
datalines;
1 Q1 a Y
1 Q1 b Y
1 Q1 c Y
1 Q2 a Y
1 Q2 b Y
1 Q2 c N
1 Q2 d N
1 Q2 e Y
2 Q1 a N
2 Q1 b Y
2 Q1 c Y
2 Q2 a N
2 Q2 b Y
2 Q2 c N
2 Q2 d N
2 Q2 e Y
;
proc report data=have1 nowd ;
columns ('ID' id) question,subcat,response;
define id/group ' ';
define question/across ' ' nozero;
define subcat/across ' ' nozero;
define response/group ' ' nozero ;
run;
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