Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:42:34 -0500
Reply-To: Kevin Myers <KevinMyers@AUSTIN.RR.COM>
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From: Kevin Myers <KevinMyers@AUSTIN.RR.COM>
Subject: Re: Split Dataset into 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th week of the month
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Your actual problem is really much easier to solve than what I assumed
previously. You mention that your data includes a termination date for each
product. Does it also contain a start date for each product? If not, you
will need to include code to come up with that. Once you have the start
date, then you can simply use the following to calculate your week value:
week = 1 + int(date - startDate) / 7; /* SAS date values must be used for
this to work as provided. */
If your data only includes a sale date and a termination date, then
appropriate data step code might look something like this:
proc sort data=sales; by saleDate; run;
data sales;
set sales; by terminationDate; /* Note: Sort by sale date also implies
data is sorted by termination date. */
if first.terminationDate then startDate=saleDate;
week = 1 + int(date - startDate)/7;
retain startDate;
run;
----- Original Message -----
From: "OR Stats" <stats112@GMAIL.COM>
To: <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:17
Subject: Re: Split Dataset into 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th week of the month
> Hi Dan: Thanks for your question, I am thinking about the problem more
> carefully and need to revise the definition to be more accurate...
>
> My data is daily historic product volume. However, the daily volume
> references a new product each month. When one product offering ends
> towards
> the end of the month, a new product offering is open. I am interested in
> studying the volume in the first, second, third, and fourth week from when
> a
> new product is launched over time.
>
> Each month, I have a *termination date* (for when the current month's
> product offer ends) that falls on a workday date that is near to the end
> of
> the month. The termination date is *variable*, but known for my entire
> daily dataset.
>
> So 'monthly' product is a soft defn of month, because for
>
> 'Oct' 2009 product: volume is collected for this offer beginning Sep 29 -
> Oct 28, 2009 = 22 days
> 'Nov' 2009 product: volume is collected for this offering beginning Oct
> 29 -
> Nov 24, 2009 = 19 days
>
> For my daily volume data for the 'Oct' product offering, I would like to
> divide Sep 29-Oct 28 into *day1-5, day6-10, day11-15*, *day16-*22.
> For my daily volume data for the 'Nov' product offering, I would like to
> divide Oct 29-Nov 24 into day1-5, day6-10, day11-15, day16-19.
>
> Of course, I have no volumes on *weekends *and *holidays*, so in my
> dataset
> the dates are not absolutely continuous to code simply +5 for example.
>
> For every month product, the range of dates for the 5 volume days are
> variable depending on weekends/holidays. This makes it tricky.
>
> I would greatly appreciate all your suggestions as the problem of coding
> this is boggling.
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) <
> NordlDJ@dshs.wa.gov> wrote:
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of OR
>> > Stats
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:07 AM
>> > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> > Subject: Re: Split Dataset into 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th week of the month
>> >
>> > Thanks, Kevin for pointing that out. The defn for our purposes is
>> >
>> > If the 1st of the month falls during the business week (Mon, Tue, ..
>> Fri),
>> > the first week of the month is the week of the 1st.
>> >
>> > If the 1st of the month falls during the weekend (Sat or Sun), the
>> > first
>> > week of the month is the full week there following
>> > .
>> > So take two extreme cases
>> >
>> > E.g., Jun 1, 2009 was on a Monday
>> > Mon 6/1- Fri 6/5 is the 1st work week
>> > Mon 6/8- Fri 6/12 is the 2nt work week
>> > Mon 6/15 - Fri 6/19 is the 3rd work week
>> > Mon 6/22 - Fri 6/26 is the 4th work week
>> >
>> > Aug 1, 2009 is on a Saturday
>> > Mon 8/3 - Fri 8/7 is the 1st work week
>> > Mon 8/10 - Fri 8/14 is the 2nd work week
>> > Mon 8/17 - Fri 8/21 is the 3rd work week
>> > Mon 8/24 - Fri 8/28 is the 4th work week
>> >
>> > Would greatly appreciate the syntax in coding this with respect to the
>> dates
>> > that I have.
>>
>> So, just to be clear, for October 2009 what days should be included in
>> the
>> first week of the month?
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> Daniel J. Nordlund
>> Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
>> Planning, Performance, and Accountability
>> Research and Data Analysis Division
>> Olympia, WA 98504-5204
>>
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