SAS is one of the standard applications for statistical analysis (alongside S-Plus and Stata). It is an enormous and expensive application that consists of the base system (SAS/Base) and optional packages (SAS/Stat, SAS/ETS, …). A limited version of SAS, Learning Edition, is available at a reduced price.
I have produced a brief tutorial (PDF) on its use in survey research.
Note: SAS is a complicated application with thousands of functions about which countless volumes of documentation have been written. This tutorial barely scratches the surface; it is designed to get a new user up and running by importing some data and running some basic tables and regressions. For more comprehensive information about SAS, see Resources to help you learn and use SAS, from UCLA’s Academic Technology Services.
