FILENAME HV 'C:\NHANES3\HV.DAT' LRECL=8; **** LRECL includes 2 positions for CRLF, assuming use of PC SAS ; DATA WORK; INFILE HV MISSOVER; LENGTH SEQN 7 HVP 8 ; FORMAT ; INPUT SEQN 1-5 HVP 6 ; LABEL SEQN = "Respondent identification number" HVP = "Antibody to human papillomavirus-16" ; RUN; proc contents data=work; run; proc freq data=work; tables hvp/missing list; run; proc compare base=in.HV_original_sasdata compare=work; id seqn; run;