Printing the description of informats and formats example 7. Proc print prints the output data sets, and the resulting output object is also routed to the html destination. This procedure is often used to create tables to be used in publications because it allows for a great deal. Compute descriptive statistics for variables across all observations or within groups of observations. Below we show the sas code and the output for proc freq we have used the hsb2 data set. In other words, proc tabulate maintains for subsequent categories the order that was established by earlier categories. The result is two output data sets and two output objects formatted as html output. Proc tabulate is predominately used to make nice looking tables. Proc tabulate determines the format to use for a particular cell based on the following order of precedence for formats.
Proc tabulate uses the value of the sas system option threads except when a by statement is specified or the value of the sas system option cpucount is less than 2. In version 9, sas introduced two new procedures on power and sample size analysis, proc power and proc glmpower. In sas, the nomcar option presents the assumption that missing values are not completely at random. In such cases, you may try to use proc means with a class statement instead of proc univariate. Remember that you do not want to use a continuous variable in a proc freq, because each value of the variable will be used and the output can get to be very long. Proc report starts building the report by consolidating the data sector and department are group variables and by calculating the statistics sales. It can also handle multiple levels in both rows and columns whereas proc freq will only create two variable contingency tables. Proc tabulate institute for advanced analytics nc state. Unlike proc freq this procedure can handle multiple variables in the row and column expressions. Replicate proc means output in proc tabulate stack. We illustrate this using a data file about 26 automobiles with their make, price, mpg, repair record, and whether the car was foreign or domestic. The tabulate procedure displays descriptive statistics in tabular format using some or all of the variables in a data set. In those cases, you can specify the threads option in the proc tabulate statement to force proc tabulate to use parallel processing.
Basic frequency table with proc freq recall that in our sample dataset, the variable state is a nominal categorical variable representing whether the student is an instate or outofstate student, while variable rank is an ordinal categorical variable representing the students class rank. How do i obtain percentiles not automatically calculated. These values are stored in the variables p33 and p45 which are saved in the data set percentiles1. Basic differences between proc means and proc summary. Using proc rank and proc univariate to rank or decile. Proc power covers a variety of statistical analyses. The presentation then shows several examples using the ods style option in proc tabulate to customize tables and improve their attractiveness.
Is there a way to do all three class variables in the table at once and get the right percentage for each category. The class statement tells sas that these variables are categorical variables. Im not sure if its possible to do what you want in one step using only original data. If you omit printmiss, proc tabulate suppresses a row or column for which there are no data, unless you use the classdata option in the proc tabulate statement. The approach here is to use proc transpose multiple times as needed. The table below shows you five columns of information. Converting raw character data to numeric values example 5. A procedure that displays descriptive statistics in tabular format but arent there other procs that do the same thing. I am trying to export multiple tables to excel using proc tabulate. A proc surveyfreq procedure in sas has an advantage over proc freq in. Writing a format for dates using a standard sas format example 4.
Wright, educational testing service, princeton, nj abstract this introduction to proc tabulate first looks at the basic syntax of proc tabulate and then, using a series of examples, shows how to produce one, two and three dimensional tables. Using the sashelp data set shoes the example reflecting this similarity is shown. The main procedures procs for categorical data analyses are freq, genmod, logistic, nlmixed, glimmix, and catmod. If you are generating multiple tables in a single proc tabulate call you can override or provide a different label in the table statement by adding something after the variable or requested statistic. Proc tabulate is mainly used to create a professional looking table. The vardef option is specified in the proc tabulate statement. The multiple transposed data files then are merged back. With only a few modifications, the above example can be used to reshape two or more variables. This example routes two output objects that proc tabulate produces to both the output destination and the html destination. Specifying class variable combinations to appear in a table example 3.
They shouldnt actually change the percentages for the row percents. Your boss wants to know the average age, income, and education of. If an entire logical page contains only missing values, that page does not print regardless of the printmiss option. How to reshape data long to wide using proc transpose. For example, you want to make a new variable and know you can use the assignment statement e. Sometimes you need to reshape your data which is in a long format shown below famid year faminc 1 96 40000 1 97 40500 1 98 4 2 96 45000 2 97 45400 2 98 45800 3 96 75000 3 97 76000 3 98 77000. Wright, educational testing service, princeton, nj abstract this introduction to proc tabulate first looks at the basic syntax of proc tabulate and then, using a series of examples, shows how to produce one, two and.
A description of how proc report builds this report follows. To compute weighted quantiles, you must use qmethodos in the proc tabulate statement. We have made a twoway table with a threelevel categorical variable ses and a twolevel categorical variable female. Sas code fragments creating a wide table from a long data set using proc tabulate. How to reshape data long to wide using proc transpose sas. This module illustrates how to obtain basic descriptive statistics using sas. Computing percentage using proc tabulate from simple to.
To get results for the abovementioned objective, we have to crosstabulate. Proc tabulate computes many of the same statistics that are computed by other descriptive statistical procedures such as means, freq, and report. By the way, the code output in this paper is based on the sas 9. It works as it should but its not quite what i want. If you want to reestablish the order of food for each value of animal, use bygroup processing.
I would like to replicate the output of proc means using proc tabulate. Below we show the sas code and the output for proc freq. Using preloaded formats with class variables example 4. You can create a variety of tables ranging from simple to highly customized. If no other formats are specified, proc tabulate uses the default format 12. A solution is to use proc summary, followed by a data step to prepare the data for tabulate. Transaction timeof laptop units id dateofsale sale model sold warranty week rx000476 23112009 09. I want to run macro just once when number is building tables with style michael eberhart, mph, department of public health, philadelphia, pa abstract this paper describes how to build and customize tables using proc tabulate. In those cases, you can specify the threads option in the proc tabulate statement to force proc tabulate to. If you put this in one proc tabulate call, having separate tables wont help.
Using proc rank and proc univariate to rank or decile variables. Here is an example of proc report code with the list option. Example below shows one tabulate call with different labels for the sex variable from the sashelp. Use both lclm and uclm to compute a twosided confidence limit for the mean. Examples of proc template code will be provided to modify existing sas styles, and picture formats will be used to enhance table output. I knew other procedures such as proc tabulate and proc means worked with multilabel. Proc tabulate is a procedure used to display descriptive statistics in. Advantages of knowing proc report jobs saves time reduces coding bypass many procedures awesome display its just fun. If you use both options, proc tabulate first uses the userdefined formats to order the output. Proc univariate sas annotated output below is an example of code used to investigate the distribution of a variable. You can use the attrib, format, label, and where statements. The var statement tells sas that these variables are analysis variables. Make price mpg rep78 foreign amc 4099 22 3 0 amc 4749 17 3 0 amc 3799 22 3 0 audi. Beginning with the code for a basic table, step by step instructions will be provided to expand and enhance any table with proc tabulate.
Computing percentage using proc tabulate from simple. Occasionally you want a report formatted the way sas proc tabulate formats data, but you want special rows or columns and a special layout, which are difficult or impossible to do directly with tabulate. The reason for this is that i would like to have a profit percentage or margin as one of the variables in the proc means output, but would like to suppress the calculation for one or more of the statistics i. Unlike proc freq this procedure can handle multiple variables in the row and column. The transport file was moved to the new operating environment by means of communications software or magnetic medium. To illustrate the similarities and differences between proc tabulate and other sas procedures, the following example takes the same analysis and produces the results, first using proc means and then using proc tabulate. Introduction to presenting statistical analyses using sas. The tabulate procedure displays descriptive statistics in tabular format, using some or all of the variables in a data set. Proc tabulate building tables with style michael eberhart, mph, department of public health, philadelphia, pa abstract this paper describes how to build and customize tables using proc tabulate. Sas proc tabulate percentages by multiple class variables.
We can create a variety of tables ranging from simple to highly customized using the tabulate procedure. Once a variable is in class youre already out of luck as far as missing values. Remember that you do not want to use a continuous variable in a proc freq, because each value of the variable will be used and the. Below is an example of using sas proc transpose to reshape the data from a long to a wide format. Proc glmpower covers tests related to experimental design models. Say that you use sas but wish to know how to do a particular command in stata. Tabulate, table statement, classlev, keyword, style override option introduction proc tabulate has its roots in a table generation program that had been developed by the bureau of labor statistics rhodes, 2005. Frequency calculation in the following sample code, the percentage of people who currently have asthma astcur is examined by race racehpr2 and by race and sex racehpr2srsex. For example, for statespopulation i want to only look at eastern states in one table. This example shows how to use proc cimport to read from disk a transport file, named tranfile, that proc cport created from a sas library in another operating environment. Proc tabulate display mean an count in same column posted 10192016 1450 views in reply to lin39 my suggestion is to use a data step program and possibly a sas macro definition to create the concatenated character variable with the n and the mean in the data step so you can simplify the logic in the proc report.
Much of the statement structure and syntax was directly adapted into proc tabulate. If you omit exclusive in the proc statement, proc tabulate appends after the userdefined format and the classdata values the unique values of the class variables in the input data set based on the order that they are encountered. Introduction to proc tabulate sas proceedings and more. I tried using a few where statements but sas only used the last one in. The ods output statement creates the sas data set energyoutput from the output objects that proc tabulate produces. When i did this i got the table you had, except for three extra rows. This paper will explain the utility of geometric means and provide examples for using sas to calculate geometric means and their measures of variability for your data. Keyword all works only for summing up categories of classvariables, but you want to sum up two different variables but its easy enough with interim step, creating dataset where a. The format option in the proc tabulate statement changes the default format. The out option in the output statement allows us to specify the name of the data set to be created.
Proc tabulate creates a separate table for each by group, so that the ordering can differ from one by group to the next. Create the sas output data set and specify the variables that you want to be written to the output sas data set. Using proc rank and proc univariate to rank or decile variables jonas v. In our example, we will use the hsb2 data set and we will investigate the distribution of the continuous variable write, which is the scores of 200 high school students on a writing test. Example 2 the proc univariate calculates the 33rd and 45th percentiles for the variable write.