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SAS Technical Screening Problem asked at CDC, Atlanta...

The following 3 datasets exist in a hypothetical system:

COUNTY

COUNTY_ID STATE_NAME COUNTY_NAME1 Texas Collin

2 Texas Dallas

3 Georgia DeKalb

AGE_DISTRIBUTION

COUNTY_ID AGE_0_10 AGE_10_20 AGE_20_40 AGE_40_PLUS

1 100 20 40 60

2 10 10 40 50

3 45 100 56 67

AGE_DISTRIBUTION_DESCCATEGORY_NAME CATEGORY_DESCRIPTION

AGE_0_10 < 10 years

AGE_10_20 Between 10 and 20 years

AGE_20_40 Between 20 and 40 years

AGE_40_PLUS > 40 years

Requirement 1: Write a SAS program (with ODS) to use the datasets given above to

generateHTML and MS EXCEL file that will look like the following (the files must

have the 3 tables given below):

County

Name

Age Distribution

Category Total Number

Collin

< 10 years 100

Between 10 and 20 years 20

Between 20 and 40 years 40

> 40 years 60

Dallas

< 10 years 10

Between 10 and 20 years 10

Between 20 and 40 years 40

> 40 years 50

DeKalb

< 10 years 45

Between 10 and 20 years 100

Between 20 and 40 years 56

> 40 years 67

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Category County

Collin Dallas DeKalb

< 10 years 100 10 45

Between 10 and 20 years 20 10 100

Between 20 and 40 years 40 40 56

> 40 years 60 50 67Total 220 110 268

Category State

Texas Georgia

< 10 years 110 45

Between 10 and 20 years 30 100

Between 20 and 40 years 80 56

> 40 years 110 67

Total 330 268

Note: The color scheme and other style elements (bold, italics etc) MUST be

incorporated in the output.

Requirement 2: With a different dataset structure as given below, produce the same

HTML and MS EXCEL file result as given above:

COUNTY

COUNTY_ID STATE_NAME COUNTY_NAME1 Texas Collin

2 Texas Dallas

3 Georgia DeKalb

AGE_DISTRIBUTION

COUNTY_ID AGE_DISTR_CAT_ID DISTRIBUTION_COUNT

1 1.1 100

1 2.2 20

1 3.3 40

1 4.4 50

2 1.1 10

2 2.2 10

2 3.3 40

2 4.4 50

3 1.1 45

3 2.2 100

3 3.3 56

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3 4.4 67

AGE_DISTRIBUTION_DESC

AGE_DISTR_CAT_ID CATEGORY_DESCRIPTION

1.1 < 10 years

2.2 Between 10 and 20 years3.3 Between 20 and 40 years

4.4 > 40 years

What to submit: Please provide two separate self-contained SAS Programs (datasetsand data in these datasets must be declared in the DATA step of the programs, an

external data source should not be used) which can be executed in the SAS console. The

programs must generate a HTML file called results.html and an MS Excel file called

results.xls, the look and feel of which has been depicted earlier.

The following aspects must be kept in mind when developing the programs:

Presentation: The generated HTML/MS Excel must resemble the output tablestructure given above.

Program efficiency: The program must be as short and efficient as possible.

In each program a macro variable must be used to determine whether to produceHTML output or MS-Excel output. We will alter the variable value (the possible

values must be documented in the program) during execution to generate the desired

output.

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