Dear all greetings of the day it is the continuation of the further programming for the previous data in which i requested a SAS programming code to identify the peer group companies my dataset is in the following format Name year mcap synch code RANK ESG Oil & Natural Gas Corpn. Ltd. 2010 2,349,765 1.60 610 1 1 Oil India Ltd. 2010 277,160 0.55 610 2 0 Selan Exploration Technology Ltd. 2010 6,604 1.53 610 3 0 Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. 2010 1,168,998 0.49 2513 1 1 Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. 2011 118,256 0.61 34 1 0 Tata Chemicals Ltd. 2011 86,662 0.58 34 2 0 Piramal Enterprises Ltd. 2011 69,996 0.59 34 3 1 H M T Ltd. 2011 45,032 1.35 34 4 0 K S K Energy Ventures Ltd. 2011 37,636 0.95 34 5 0 B A S F India Ltd. 2011 25,692 0.15 34 6 0 Peninsula Land Ltd. 2011 16,550 0.87 34 7 0 Texmaco Rail & Engg. Ltd. 2011 12,729 2.68 34 8 0 Alembic Ltd. 2011 9,760 2.59 34 9 0 I T I Ltd. 2011 9,202 3.41 34 10 0 Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. 2011 8,876 2.94 34 11 0 Man Infraconstruction Ltd. 2011 6,957 3.75 34 12 0 D C M Shriram Ltd. 2011 6,678 2.77 34 13 0 Venky'S (India) Ltd. 2011 5,971 3.75 34 14 0 Bombay Burmah Trdg. Corpn. Ltd. 2011 5,537 3.25 34 15 0 T I L Ltd. 2011 5,058 3.55 34 16 0 Nitin Fire Protection Inds. Ltd. 2011 4,660 2.07 34 17 0 Jindal Cotex Ltd. 2011 4,559 3.31 34 18 0 Texmaco Infrastructure & Holdings Ltd. 2011 4,000 1.65 34 19 0 India Glycols Ltd. 2011 3,473 1.12 34 20 0 Kokuyo Camlin Ltd. 2011 3,239 1.04 34 21 0 Globus Spirits Ltd. 2011 2,830 1.09 34 22 0 B S Ltd. 2011 1,880 1.60 34 23 0 Technocraft Industries (India) Ltd. 2011 1,758 0.68 34 24 0 From the above database, i have to create a dummy variable that takes the value '1' if the ESG company (e., the company with value '1' in the ESG column) has the highest 'synch' compared to other companies in the peer group. Peer group definition is the same as I mentioned in the previous query if the company is making ESG reporting, ( i.e., value is equal to '1'), identify the companies which are closer to ESG reporting companies based on their MCAP(market capitalization) as peer companies within each industry code. the closeness should be just below the ESG company MCAP and just above the ESG company MCAP in two levels in some industry groups, we cannot find peer companies just above the MCAP of ESG companies, and also in some industries, only one company. in such case no peer company the output should be in the following format name year code dummy Oil & Natural Gas Corpn. Ltd. 2010 610 1 Piramal Enterprises Ltd. 2011 34 1 Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. 2011 6020 0 hope I mentioned the conditions clearly. if any clarity is required on the conditions, please let me know. i am attaching the .CSV file of the sample data please suggest to me a SAS code to generate the above table thanking you in advance
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