SAS Programming Homework for Fall 2003 - Female Labor Force Participation Rates - Prof. St, Assignments of Introduction to Sociology

Download SAS Programming Homework for Fall 2003 - Female Labor Force Participation Rates - Prof. St and more Assignments Introduction to Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! Socy 699c, Fall 2003 Homework #4 assigned 09/23/2003, due 09/30/2003 You are given the following data: CITY: city in the United States FLFP72: labor force participation rate of women in 1972 FLFP68: labor force participation rate of women in 1968 CITY FLFP72 FLFP68 NY 45 42 LA 50 50 Chicago 52 52 Philadelphia 45 45 Detroit 46 43 San Francisco 55 55 Boston 60 45 Pittsburgh 49 34 Saint Louis 35 45 Washington D.C. 52 42 The 1972 female labor force participation rate for New York is 0.45. In other words, the decimal place is not present in the data but implied. 1.) Write a SAS program to read these data ‘instream’, and write a permanent SAS data file. Use comments to explain what you are doing, for yourself and for the grader. 2.) Using the same data as in first problem, type a separate raw data file. Write a SAS program to read these data, and write a permanent SAS data file (Include comments to yourself in the program file.) 3.) Write a final SAS program to read the permanent SAS data file created in problem two, and write a new SAS data file without a variable for female labor force participation in 1968. Your homework will include the log files for each of the three programs, output from the third program, and any discussion or comments you feel are necessary.