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. Sas pronounced sass, originally statistical analysis system is an integrated system of software products provided by sas institute inc. Input data sets on page 18 exclnpwgts excludes observations with nonpositive weight values zero or negative from the analysis. Getting started with proc tabulate the first thing the wouldbe proc tabulate programmer needs to. For an explanation of the program that produces this table, see specifying style elements for html. You can use the data step to slice and dice your data, and there are dozens of procedures that will process your data and produce all kinds of statistics. In those cases, you can specify the threads option in the proc tabulate statement to force proc tabulate to.
Proc tabulate and proc report both allow the use of preimage graphics files. 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. If you want to reestablish the order of food for each value of animal, use bygroup processing. Var1 var2 0 1 0 1 usa 40 50 40 50 aus 50 20 50 20 ire 60 40 60 40 dub 70 50 70 50 here i get the table with the totals of both var 1 var 2 for 0s and 1s. Proc tabulate is predominately used to make nice looking tables. The following chapters walk you through the process of building proc tabulate tables step by step, with plenty of examples. In other words, proc tabulate maintains for subsequent categories the order that was established by earlier categories. Help sas help and documentation sas products base sas sas procedures 2. Proc tabulate creates a separate table for each by group, so that the ordering can differ from one by group to the next. Custom tables is spsss functional equivalent of sas s tabulate procedure, which is in its essence a special purpose language for creating an accountants spreadsheet from a sas dataset. Custom tables is spsss functional equivalent of sass tabulate procedure, which is in its essence a special purpose language for creating an accountants spreadsheet from a sas dataset. To create a crosstable or contingency table in sas, use the freq procedure proc freq.
Dec 16, 20 music for rest and recovery of the body for sleep relaxation after a working day therapy duration. Contact informa tion your comments and questions are va lued and encouraged. It was built by merging the staff, sales and cust sas data sets. If so, then proc tabulate is an excellent procedure to learn which can expand your sas toolkit when it comes to computing and displaying descriptive statistics. Formatting headings for observations with missing class variables by default, as shown in computer sales data. Beginning with version 7 of the sas system, you can use the output delivery system to create customized html files from proc tabulate. In those cases, you can specify the threads option in the proc tabulate statement to force proc tabulate to use parallel processing. One thing i find helpful in using r is to keep in mind that r is more an environment for doing statistics than a language. Contents has no effect on tabulate procedure reports. 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.
Unlike proc freq, which allows an unlimited number of dimensions proc tabulate allows a maximum of three dimensions. I think a proc sql plus a proc tranpose should work. 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. First, make sure the data in your sas data set is correct the salescust sas data set used in our examples contains one row for each sales transaction identifying the customer, date, amount, etc. Introduction to proc tabulate systems seminar consultants. It works as it should but its not quite what i want. May 26, 2015 i am a huge fan of the first edition of your book and will definitely purchase the update. It can produce tables with one to three dimensions, and within each dimension it allows multiple variables to be reported one after another or hierarchically. Html table produced by proc tabulate shows a table created with html. This introduction to proc tabulate first looks at the basic syntax of proc. While the statistics produced by proc tabulate can be calculated with other procedures such as proc means or proc freq, the main advantage of proc tabulte is the flexibility available.
Sugi 30 tutorials 1 paper 24330 making sense of proc tabulate jonas v. Hi, i am trying to caculate sum and count of a variable with one proc tabulate procedure, so that the sum of var1 will be displayed beside count of var1. Proc tabulate will now interpret the dimension statements in this order, first page, then the row, then the columns. With this book, you will quickly learn how to generate tables using macros, create tables using sasassist software, present output on the internet, handle. If no other formats are specified, then proc tabulate uses the default format 12. Applications are presented in a selfcontained, twopage layout. The equal sign is an operator most commonly used for formatting and table design. If you need the dataset in the same structure as the tabulate output, you need to tranpose the data from longnarrow to shortwide. Proc tabulate computes many of the same statistics that are computed by other descriptive statistical procedures such as means, freq, and report. The var statement tells sas that these variables are analysis variables. Music for rest and recovery of the body for sleep relaxation after a working day therapy duration.
Many beginning sas programmers have a difficult time understanding the syntax of proc tabulate and tend to avoid using the procedure. Introduction to proc tabulate 14 step 1 for using proc tabulate 1. The tabulate procedure displays descriptive statistics in tabular format, using some or all of the variables in a data set. You can create a variety of tables ranging from simple to highly customized. Sep 21, 2014 proc export with dbmsxlsx can addupdate a sheet within an existing xlsx file.
It means that the sas programmer can now easily make. The goal of this book is to debunk the myth that proc tabulate is impossible to learn. Unlike proc freq this procedure can handle multiple variables in the row and column expressions. Missing value for comp, proc tabulate displays missing values of a class variable as one of the standard sas characters for missing values a period, a blank, an underscore, or one of the letters a through z. An abundance of realworld examples highlights lauren haworths proc tabulate by example. Example without using proc tabulate 4 example with using proc tabulate 4 sas software provides hundreds of ways for you to analyze your data. If sasdataset doesnt exist, proc tabulate creates it. Using ods styles with proc tabulate using styles with base sas procedures. The above example creates a crosstable of gender and grade containing frequencies and cell percentages, row percentages, and column percentages. Sas founder jim goodnight, cheif executive officer,sas. 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. However i want only the totals of 1s in this cross table. Sas proc tabulate percent of total actuarial outpost. Most base sas procedures that support ods use one or more table templates to produce output objects.
If you want to display something else instead, you must assign a format to. In proc tabulate, a logo can be easily inserted in the box in the top left corner of the output. Ive used proc tabulate to generate 5 different tables and wrote those to a pdf document with ods. Weixing song march 16, 2006 this example demonstrates how to create hierarchical tables. Beginning and intermediate sas users will find this stepbystep guide to producing tables and reports using the tabulate procedure both convenient and inviting. Anyone can learn proc tabulate lauren haworth, genentech, inc. Using ods to create sas data sets from sas procs you can use ods to pull information from sas procedures into sas data sets even if it does not show up in the procedures output data sets. Some use proprietary macros to further enhance the interaction between ods and other programs outside of sas e. Examples of hierarchical tabulate in sas edited by. Well, youll have to generate the all table separately and then use by group processing for the sheet naming,as shown below. The examples and exercises in this workshop make use of the sas data files, prdsale from the sas 9.
Proc tabulate determines the format to use for a particular cell from the following default order of precedence for formats. 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. This means that i can create the file with ods excel, then update the same file using proc export, all within a single sas program. The format option in the proc tabulate statement changes the default format. Your boss wants to know the average age, income, and education of. If sas dataset doesnt exist, proc tabulate creates it. Comme souvent dans sas, tout commence avec une option data pour. The class statement tells sas that these variables are categorical variables. Im attempting to use proc tabulate to create a report containing the pvalue from a ttest, but the prt probt options pvalue of ttest isnt correct. 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. These table templates include templates for table elements. The syntax is not as intuitive as some other sas procedures. The type of graphics file used is dependent on the sas output destination. The number of observations in the output data set depends on the number of categories of data that are used in the tables and the number of subtables that are generated.
Proc export with dbmsxlsx can addupdate a sheet within an existing xlsx file. I am sure that the second edition will become the new goto on proc tabulate. This procedure is often used to create tables to be used in publications because it allows for a great deal. The example can be further simplified to a more conventional use of tabulate and still show a buggy format in pdf. The output data set contains these variables in this order. The asterisk can be used for many purposes, such as associating statistical keywords and formats with a particular variable, and crossing elements within a dimension. Proc tabulate and ods pdf woes sas support communities. In fact, i recommend your book as one of the must have sas books sas programming professionals should have on page 71 of my own book. Proc tabulate is mainly used to create a professional looking table.