Date:         Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:04:51 -0400
Reply-To:     Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Finding the sum of values under variables
Comments: To: Kwame Asom <asom77@HOTMAIL.COM>

Kwame,

There are numerous ways.  I, personally, would use:

PROC means data=Dataset1 sum;
  var ama kofi;
  output out=sums sum=;
run;

HTH,
Art
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:07:35 -0400, Kwame Asom <asom77@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Dataset1
>Obs            ama                  kofi
>1              797.1                60.22
>2              18.99                45.30
>3              896.3                46.32
>4              14.65                89.67
>5              79.54                563.2
>6              88.56                2569.3
>7              145.3                58996.23
>..
>700            45.32                189.3
>
>I have the above dataset(dataset1) and I want to find the sum of all the
>values under each variable (ama and kofi  separately). Ie. For  ama  I
need
>the total of all the values : 797.1 + 18.99 + 896.3 +...... 45.32.
>For kofi:  60.22 + 45.30 + 89.67 +........189.3.
>I  have 700 observations, only  8 are shown above.
>*Could someone help me with the SAS code to find the sum of values under
>ama and kofi above, please?