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Introduction: Inputting Questionnaire Data versus Other Types of Data

3. Data Input

Introduction: Inputting Questionnaire Data versus Other Types of Data		30
Entering Data: An Illustrative Example		31
Inputting Data Using the DATALINES Statement		35
Additional Guidelines		40
	Inputting String Variables with the Same Prefix and Different Numeric Suffixes	40
	Inputting Character Variables	41
	Using Multiple Lines of Data for Each Participant	42
	Creating Decimal Places for Numeric Variables	45
	Inputting “Check All That Apply” Questions as Multiple Variables	46
Inputting a Correlation or Covariance Matrix		48
	Inputting a Correlation Matrix	48
	Inputting a Covariance Matrix	52
Inputting Data Using the INFILE Statement Rather than the DATALINES Statement		53
Controlling the Output Size and Log Pages with the OPTIONS Statement		54
Conclusion		55
Reference		55

Overview

This section shows how to create a SAS dataset. A SAS dataset contains the information (e.g., independent variables, dependent variables, survey responses) to be analyzed by SAS procedures such as PROC MEANS and PROC GLM. The chapter begins with a simple illustrative example in which a SAS dataset is created using the DATALINES statement. In subsequent sections, additional guidelines show how to input the different types of data that are most frequently encountered in social science research.

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3. Data Input

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