specifies a two-digit
or four-digit integer that represents the year. The YEARCUTOFF= system
option defines the year value for two-digit dates.
quarter
specifies the quarter
of the year (1, 2, 3, or 4).
Details
The YYQ function returns
a SAS date value that corresponds to the first day of the specified
quarter. If either year or quarter is missing, or if the quarter value is
not valid, the result is missing.
Example
The following SAS statements
produce these results.
SAS Statement
Result
DateValue=yyq(2001,3);
put DateValue;
put DateValue date7.;
put DateValue date9.;
15157
01JUL01
01JUL2001
StartOfQtr=yyq(99,4);
put StartOfQtr;
put StartOfQtr=worddate.;