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BLS State and Area Employment, Hours, and Earnings Surveys


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                    SAS Sample Library

        Name: datex03.sas
 Description: Example program from SAS/ETS User's Guide,
              The DATASOURCE Procedure

   Title: BLS State and Area Employment, Hours, and Earnings Surveys
 Product: SAS/ETS Software
  System: ALL
    Keys: DATASOURCE  data extraction from various sources
   Procs: DATASOURCE
    Data: sasmisc: blseesa.dat (DATASOURCE database files)
   Notes: Read this before you run this sample.
          The database resides in the ets/sasmisc folder. You
          must copy the database to a writeable folder before
          using it. Then define your Windows system environment
          variable, DATASRC_DATA, to the path of your
          writeable folder containing
          the blseesa.data file.
          To assign a fileref to the external file to be processed,
          use the following form of the filename statement:

filename ascifile "%sysget(DATASRC_DATA)blseesa.dat" RECFM=F LRECL=152;
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filename ascifile "%sysget(DATASRC_DATA)blseesa.dat" RECFM=F LRECL=152;
proc datasource  filetype=blseesa
                 infile=ascifile
                 outall=totkey
                 out=totemp;
   keep sa1;
   range from 1989:3 to 1990:3;
   rename sa1=totemp;
run;

title1 'Information on Total Employment, OUTALL= Data Set';
proc print data=totkey;
run;

title1 'Total Employment, OUT= Data Set';
proc print data=totemp;
run;

filename datafile "%sysget(DATASRC_DATA)blseesa.dat" RECFM=F LRECL=152;
proc datasource  filetype=blseesa
                 outall=totkey
                 out=totemp;
   where industry='0000';
   keep sa1;
   range from 1989:3 to 1990:3;
   rename sa1=totemp;
run;

title1 'Total Employment for Real Estate and Construction, OUT= Data Set';
proc print data=totemp;
run;