I just found out after a bit of googling, the correct way to assign same informats to all variables is like this:   input (score1-score5) (4. 4. 4. 4. 4.); or a shorter form would be:  input (score1-score5) (4.);     Additional information is here: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000148073.htm   I tried testing it and it works as expected.   Again, thank you for pointing me to right direction :)     ... View more