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Reading hierarchical data - Part 2

This post is the second in a series that illustrates three different solutions to "flattening" hierarchical data. Solution 1, from my previous post, created one observation per header record, summarizing the detail data with a COUNT variable, like this: Summary Approach: One observation per header record   Obs Family Count

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Reading hierarchical data - Part 1

A family and its members represent a simple hierarchy.  For example, the Jones family has four members: A text file might represent this hierarchy with family records followed by family members' records, like this:   The PROC FORMAT step below defines the codes in Column 1: proc format; value $type

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