USING SAS STUDIO ONDEMAND ONLY!!!!

Step 1. Perform a merge of the demographics, secondhandsmoke, and healthstatus files.

• Show the results in your log and then run a proc contents to show the resulting file size and variables

Step 2. Take a sample of 1500 records from the data file you created in #1.

• Show the results in the small results box

Step 3. On the file you just created select any five variables from the file and create another file

• Show the results from the proc contents box (which tells you the number of records and the number of variables)

Step 4. Conduct a merge of the demos2013 and demos2015 files.

• Show the results from a proc contents procedure (the upper box)

Step 5. Using the file you just created please create another file with only males.

• Show the results
• **Hint**: the variable is riagendr and the value for males is 1