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Why might you use PROC CONTENTS?

  1. Describes the structure of the data set

  2. To find variable datatypes

  3. To find unique values

  4. To find total number of obeservations

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Explanation

PROC CONTENTS in SAS serves two main purposes: describing dataset structure (variables, attributes, labels) and identifying variable datatypes (numeric, character, lengths). It does NOT find unique values or total observations - that's PROC FREQ/MEANS territory.