META_INDICATOR_CONTENTS

Provide a common contents as a set of generic dimensions to be included in an indicator table, together with their types, lengths, and positions in the table.

Contents

A table named after the value &G_PING_INDICATOR_CONTENTS (e.g., META_INDICATOR_CONTENTS) shall be defined in the library named after the value &G_PING_LIBCFG (e.g., LIBCFG) so as to contain the common variables/dimensions used in all indicators created in production.

In practice, the table looks like this:

dimension	type	length	order
geo	char	15	1
time	num	4	2
unit	char	8	-9
ivalue	num	8	-8
iflag	char	8	-7
unrel	num	8	-6
n	num	8	-5
nwgh	num	8	-5
ntot	num	8	-4
ntotwgh	num	8	-3
lastup	char	8	-2
lastuser	char	8	-1

Creation and update

Consider an input CSV table called A.csv, with same structure as above, and stored in a directory named B. In order to create/update the SAS table A in library C, as described above, it is then enough to run:

%meta_indicator_contents(cds_ind_con=A, cfg=B, clib=C);

Note that, by default, the command %meta_indicator_contents; runs:

%meta_indicator_contents(cds_ind_con=&G_PING_INDICATOR_CONTENTS, 
                cfg=&G_PING_ESTIMATION/meta, 
                clib=&G_PING_LIBCFG, zone=yes);

Example

Generate the table META_INDICATOR_CONTENTS in the WORK directory:

%meta_indicator_contents(clib=WORK);

See also

%meta_variablexindicator, %meta_variable_dimension.