Dear all,  I am new to SAS but advanced in STATA. I have a variable called hfaudd (highest accomplished education) which I would like to formate to a better (esier to interpret) variable with Primary school, Upper secondary school, higher education and Post graduate. The variabel is confusing build up, where it goes from 1-9914 with each education being a differnt number. I got a piece of code from a collegue: Newvar = put(hfaudd, $AUDD2010-LIL5-K.), which for me look like SAS. Can anyone tell me what "$AUDD2010-LIL5-K" is supossed to do? or maybe the hole thing in a contekts?  I know AUDD is a register, but do not know about LIL.    Then if i am lucky I could start seeing a pattern in the variable and might even be able to solve the problem in STATA.    Best Mads Ø ... View more