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Description

The World Health Organization (WHO) collected data in countries across the world regarding the outbreak of swine u cases and deaths in 2009. The data in the le SwineFlu2009.dat include counts per country by month during the epidemic. There are many variables in the raw data le with the following descriptions: By date, ID for sorting by first case date By continent, ID (X.YY) for sorting by first case date within a continent where X represents continent X, and YY represents the YYth country with the next first case

Country

Date of first case reported

Number of cumulative cases reported on the first day of the month for April, May, June, July, and August (across the columns, respectively)

Last reported cumulative number of cases reported to WHO as of August 9, 2009

By date, ID for sorting by first death date

By continent, ID (X.YY) for sorting by first death date within a continent where X represents continent X, and YY represents the YYth country with the next first death

Date of first death

Number of cumulative deaths reported on the first day of the month for May, June, July, August, September, October,

November, and December (across the columns, respectively)

a. Examine the raw data le SwineFlu2009.dat and read it into SAS.

b. Print a report that describes the contents of the data set including attributes of the variables.