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SAS Programming Basics: DATA Step and PROCs

Start programming in SAS — read data, clean it with the DATA step, and summarise it with core procedures.

Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 3 reviews
  • Beginner
  • 19 lessons · 2h 54m of video
  • 412 students
  • English
  • Updated Oct 2026
Coding preview SAS Programming Basics: DATA Step and PROCs

The route

Curriculum

5 modules · 19 lessons · 2h 54m of video

  1. 1

    The SAS environment

    3 lessons

    24m
  2. 2

    Reading data

    4 lessons

    36m
  3. 3

    The DATA step

    5 lessons

    47m
  4. 4

    Summary procedures

    4 lessons

    38m
  5. 5

    Combining datasets

    3 lessons

    29m

Destination

What you will be able to do

  • Read CSV and Excel data into SAS
  • Clean and transform data in the DATA step
  • Summarise data with PROC MEANS and FREQ
  • Sort, subset and combine datasets
  • Produce clear tables and simple charts

Before you board

You will need

  • No programming experience needed
  • A free SAS OnDemand for Academics account

About this course

The journey

SAS is the standard analytics language in banking, pharma and public research. This course gives you a solid start: reading data from files, transforming it with the DATA step, and summarising it with PROC PRINT, MEANS, FREQ and SORT.

Everything runs in the free SAS OnDemand for Academics environment, and every lesson uses realistic datasets so the skills transfer straight to work.

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What students say

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4.7

Rated 4.7 out of 5

Course rating · 3 reviews

Rating distribution

  • 5 stars 67%
  • 4 stars 33%
  • 3 stars 0%
  • 2 stars 0%
  • 1 star 0%
  • IS

    Ingrid Solberg

    Pharma analyst

    Oct 2026
    Rated 5.0 out of 5

    Exactly what my new job needed

    I started a role that uses SAS every day. This course got me productive in my first week, especially the DATA step lessons.
  • OH

    Omar Haddad

    Economics student

    Aug 2026
    Rated 5.0 out of 5

    Clear and well paced

    Realistic datasets instead of toy examples. PROC MEANS and FREQ are explained with outputs you can actually interpret.
  • JN

    Julia Nowak

    Statistician

    Jun 2026
    Rated 4.0 out of 5

    Solid basics

    A good foundation. I would have liked a little more on informats and dates, which come up constantly at work.
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