Most ordinary investors focus on stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds in building their investment portfolios. However, there are other financial markets that play a key role in the overall economy, and although many investors never participate in them, futures markets are among the most important. Let's look at what futures are and why you need to pay attention to them. What futures contracts are. The futures market has its origins in the commodities industry. Farmers, oil and gas producers, miners, and others whose business it is to produce commodities wanted a way to manage the risk of having to accept an uncertain price for their future production.
What is The Counted? The Counted is a project by the Guardian â and you â working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died.
First, we need to sort the data on the grouping variable, in this case, gender. Next, we will create a new variable called count that will count the number of males and the number of females. Let's consider some of the code above and explain what it does and why. The third statement, count + 1, creates the variable count and adds one to each observation as SAS processes the data step.