I'm a relatively new coder in SAS and I am trying to figure out what is the SAS equivalent of Stata's tsset command which allows you to declare a time series data set and specify which variables to sort on. I have a panel data set with US county observations for multiple categories over three years (1 observation per year, per category). I am trying to prevent crossover between counties when I calculate a growth variable so as to avoid contaminating the data. This is the Stata code I need to translate to SAS: tsset fipscode year gen pop_growth= ((race_total_pop-l.race_total_pop)/l.race_total_pop)*100 gen under_18_perc = (pop_under_18_ / race_total_pop)*100 gen over_65_perc = (pop_over_65_ / race_total_pop)*100 Thanks in advance for your help!
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