SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques

This course is for those who need to learn data manipulation techniques using the SAS DATA step and procedures to access, transform, and summarize data. The course builds on the concepts that are presented in the SAS Programming 1: Essentials course and is not recommended for beginning SAS software users.

• Understand and control DATA step processing.
• Create an accumulating column and process data in groups.
• Manipulate data with functions.
• Convert column type.
• Create custom formats.
• Concatenate and merge tables.
• Process repetitive code.
• Restructure tables.

Who should attend

Formats available	Duration
Classroom:	2 days
Live Web Classroom:	5 half-day session(s)
e-Learning:	14 hours/180 day license

Before attending this course, you should have knowledge equivalent to having completed the SAS Programming 1: Essentials course. Specifically, you should be able to do the following:

• Write DATA step code to subset rows and columns, compute new columns, and process data conditionally.
• Sort tables using the SORT procedure.
• Apply SAS formats.

This course addresses Base SAS software.

• Setting up for this course.
• Understanding DATA step processing.
• Directing DATA step output.

• Creating an accumulating column.
• Processing data in groups.

• Understanding SAS functions and CALL routines.
• Using numeric and date functions.
• Using character functions.
• Using special functions to convert column type.

• Creating and using custom formats.
• Creating custom formats from tables.

• Concatenating tables.
• Merging tables.
• Identifying matching and nonmatching rows.

• Using iterative DO loops.
• Using conditional DO loops.

• Restructuring data with the DATA step
• Restructuring data with the TRANSPOSE procedure.