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Preface

Acknowledgments

Manipulating Data

Ch. 1. INPUT and INFILE: Building a SAS Data Set from Raw Data

Ch. 2. Data Recoding: Grouping Data Values

Ch. 3. SET, MERGE, and UPDATE: Reading and Combining SAS Data Sets

Ch. 4. Table Lookup Tools: Relating Information from Multiple Sources

Ch. 5. SAS® Functions: Data Translation Tools

Ch. 6. SAS® Dates: Reading, Writing, and ‘Rithmetic with Date Values

Introduction

Example 1: Reading a Date from Raw Data

Example 2: Creating a SAS Date from Month, Day, and Year

Example 3: Computing Age

Example 4: Extracting Day of Week and Day of Month from a SAS Date

Example 5: Extracting Month and Year from a SAS Date

Example 6: Counting the Number of Years, Months, and so on, from a Given Date

Example 7: Computing Exact Age in Years

Example 8: Computing the Date after a Number of Intervals

Conclusion

Problems

Programming Tips and Techniques

Presenting Your Data

A Collection of Efficiency Tips

Appendix

Books Available from SAS® Press

Index

Conclusion

SAS software provides you with very powerful tools for working with dates. You have seen in this chapter how to read dates in various formats, extract day, month, and year information from a date, and calculate intervals between two dates. As you work with dates, you will become more comfortable with the date informats, formats, and functions. And now, here are the problems.

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Conclusion