I consider proc tabulate to be the iron chef of sas software, slicing and dicing its way to report victory. Contains the complete reference for all base sas procedures. Weixing song march 16, 2006 this example demonstrates how to create hierarchical tables. The following list corresponds to the numbered items in the preceding figure. The tabulate procedure displays descriptive statistics in tabular format, using some or all of the variables in a data set.
The basic syntax for applying cross tabulation in sas is. According to the sas documentation, a document is a collection of. There are other procedures for sas that do decision trees, but your example doesnt look like modeling. Proc tabulate is mainly used to create a professional looking table. Proc tabulate is especially useful for qualitative variables or for breaking down quantitative variables for di erent class variables. Steps to save enhanced tables in various formats using the output. Styles describe how to display presentation aspects color, font, font size, and so on of the sas. You can create a variety of tables ranging from simple to highly customized. It describes which variables to use and how to arrange the variables.
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. A procedure that displays descriptive statistics in tabular format but arent there other procs that do the same thing. Firstly, there is the output data set produced form the tabulate procedure. Figure 5 shows another example of displaying proc tabulate and proc gplot data. To override a style element that is specified in the classlev statement, you can specify a style element in the related table statement dimension expression. Introduction proc tabulate is a procedure used to display descriptive statistics in tabular format. The ods pdf statement produces output in portable document format pdf. Proc tabulate computes a variety of statistics, and it neatly packages the results in a single table. It can also handle multiple levels in both rows and columns whereas proc freq will only create two variable contingency tables. First of all, youll notice that the variable date looks nothing like a date. Proc tabulate computes many of the same statistics that are computed by other descriptive statistical procedures such as means, freq, and report.
Congratulations but wow, thats ugly lets figure out how to fix it. In example 1, we saw that placing a style option on the proc tabulate. Computing percentage using proc tabulate from simple to more complex. Ive used proc tabulate to generate 5 different tables and wrote those to a pdf document with ods.
Replicate proc means output in proc tabulate stack. Unlike proc freq this procedure can handle multiple variables in the row and column expressions. That way, your column statement looks a lot like the resulting table. Pdf results from proc tabulate with implicit page breaks. Tables may be constructed from class variables, analysis variables, and statistics keywords.
Example 1 demonstrates a typical proc tabulate step. Powerful tool beyond its limitations justin jia, cibc amanda lin, bell canada december, 20 sas canada, toronto. If you want to reestablish the order of food for each value of animal, use bygroup processing. The class statement tells sas that these variables are categorical variables. Place the ods layout start code after the ods pdf statement. I would like to replicate the output of proc means using proc tabulate. This paper takes a quick look at the basics of the proc tabulate then quickly introduces percentages, taking a. Bureau of labor statistics during the 1970s, for generating tabular reports of descriptive statistics.
Proc tabulate uses 11 of the 20 formatting characters that sas provides. Download scientific diagram proc tabulate example using styles from publication. In those cases, you can specify the threads option in the proc tabulate statement to force proc tabulate to use parallel processing. When there is only one variable, you get a onedimensional table. The tables it creates might be both long and wide, which can make fitting them onto a slide difficult. Class statements apply to all table statements in the proc tabulate step. The second part of the procedure is the table statement. Therefore, if you define a variable as a class variable, proc tabulate omits observations that have missing values for that variable from every table even if the variable does not appear in.
The workhorses of customized report writing proc tabulate and proc report deborah babcock buck, d. The ods destination for powerpoint enables you to send sas tables and graphs directly. Using ods styles with proc tabulate sas help center. For example, a style element might contain instructions for the presentation of column headings or for the. Graphing output of proc tabulate sas support communities. Formatting characters in proc tabulate output illustrates the use of each formatting character in the output from proc tabulate. If you are using eg, you can generate the gplot code easily from within the graph wizard. This paper will show how to take advantage of ods and pdf to deliver sas outputs. Computing percentage using proc tabulate from simple. Formatting characters used by proc tabulate shows the formatting characters that proc tabulate uses. All you have to do is list it in the table statement.
This is why every sas user needs to know how to use proc tabulate. Proc tabulate is predominately used to make nice looking tables. This first table will have only one variable, so you dont have to tell tabulate where to put it. Combines features of the print, means, and tabulate procedures with features of the data step in a single reportwriting tool that can produce a variety of. But the boss wants 3 of the smaller tables on the same page and wants the 2 bigger tables to each be on one page. Proc tabulate allows you to have crossings in the row and column dimensions of a table, and to have a third dimensionthe page dimensionas shown in figure 7.
Descriptive statistics can be displayed in table format with a minimum of code. Proc tabulate example using styles download scientific. Square peg proc tabulate proc tabulate enables you to specify column, row, and page dimensions. Proc report and proc tabulate will both do summary reports, but wont skip variables on rows the way you show such that var1 is in the middle. The tabulate procedure can calculate the percentages of the total count or sum of analysis variables for individual cells. Treff, nationsbank 1 abstract proc tabulate provides one, two, and three dimensional tables. A getting started tutorial art carpenter california occidental consultants, anchorage, ak abstract although proc tabulate has been a part of base sas for a very long time, this powerful analytical and reporting procedure is very under utilized. In those cases, you can specify the threads option in the proc tabulate statement to force proc tabulate to. Proc tabulate creates a separate table for each by group, so that the ordering can differ from one by group to the next. In other words, proc tabulate maintains for subsequent categories the order that was established by earlier categories. Thats because proc report is the grande dame of the groupit can do quite a few things that print and tabulate cant do. Depending on the variables that appear in the table statement, a class statement, a var statement, or both are required. A guide for sas users when using this method, it is sometimes easier to see what the output table will look like by putting a line break after each asterisk in the column statement.
The var statement tells sas that these variables are analysis variables. One of the most interesting features of the procedure is the amount of flexibility in designing the structure of the displayed table in terms of row structure, column structure, stacking or concatenating subtables, and formattinglabeling variable names and. We demonstrate the use of proc tabulate with a little trick to generate. Proc tabulate determines the style attributes to use for a particular cell from the following default order of precedence for styles. Provides information about what each procedure does and, if relevant, the kind of output that it produces. The ods rtf statement produces output in rich text format rtf. Revising output from the tabulate procedure lex jansen. Finally several examples are shown for how to clean up the tables using both standard proc tabulate options as well as several style options within ods. Customized reports in the form of listing, html, rtf, and pdf using sas ods, proc report, proc tabulate, and proc sql. Following is the description of the parameters used. For the ipd evaluation handiness, we want to merge the two files i. If no other style attributes are specified, then proc tabulate uses the default style attributes from the default style data. Sas graph proc gplot or ods graphics proc sgplot with a series or a vline statement. At least one table statement is required in a proc tabulate procedure step.
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