If sas dataset doesnt exist, proc tabulate creates it. 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. Welltrained in importing and exporting excel files using libname, proc import, proc sql, proc export. Anyone can learn proc tabulate lauren haworth, genentech, inc. The second part of the procedure is the table statement. Tabulate procedure 91 in database processing for proc tabulate 1400 results. These two procedures completely share capabilities. The presentation then shows several examples using the ods style option in proc tabulate to customize tables and improve their attractiveness. 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.
How can i generate pdf and html files for my sas output. Tabulate does this by letting you specify a series of tables within a single large table. In the ods pdf and ods rtf statements, the contents option creates a table of contents. Proc tabulate is predominately used to make nice looking tables. Proc tabulate is mainly used to create a professional looking table. The procedure reads an input xml document, transforms it by using an xsl style sheet, and then writes an output. All you have to do is list it in the table statement. However, you can use the output delivery system to create output that can be opened in a variety of destinations. However, when my report had a lot of variables 20 a blank page was showing up in frontas first page of the pdf report. You dont have too many possibilities to influence single cells, rows, columns, pages and not too much on the layout. 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. 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. 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. We can create a variety of tables ranging from simple to highly customized using the tabulate procedure.
Introduction to proc tabulate systems seminar consultants. I am attempting to use the following code to generate separate pdf documents for each of the 85 districts. Sas founder jim goodnight, cheif executive officer, sas. While the best tools might differ, depending on the purpose, we wanted to share kens code demonstrating how to replicate the r mosaic package tables using. Oct 30, 2011 proc tabulate for simple statistics corrected ken beath, of macquarie university, commented on an earlier entry that the best way to generate summary statistics is using proc tabulate. Proc tabulate code is somewhat challenging and this video introduces you to developing code to create categorical descriptive table demonstrated earlier in excel. Although these two procedures grew up on the opposite side of the tracks, over time both has evolved so that under the current version of sas they actually both use the same software behind the scenes. In this course, you developed your descriptive tables in excel, but sas offers proc tabulate for making tables that can be output to html or pdf format.
Proc tabulate provides simple but powerful methods to create tabular reports. Replicate proc means output in proc tabulate stack. Your boss wants to know the average age, income, and education of. If no other style attributes are specified, then proc tabulate uses the default style attributes from the default style data. Sas pronounced sass, originally statistical analysis system is an integrated system of software products provided by sas institute inc. Getting it done with proc tabulate sas proceedings and more.
The tabulate procedure displays descriptive statistics in tabular format using some or all of the variables in a data set. 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 means can assign labels for variable names but cant assign labels for statistics, whereas proc tabulate can assign labels for both variable names and statistics. The proc tabulate out functionality will give you a summarized table, but the table will not have the same structure as the tabulate output. The equal sign is an operator most commonly used for formatting and table design. If you want to reestablish the order of food for each value of animal, use bygroup processing. Proc tabulate is a powerful descriptive procedure that is traditionally used to create 1, 2 or 3dimensional tables. Unlike proc freq this procedure can handle multiple variables in the row and column expressions. Unlike proc freq this procedure can handle multiple variables in the row and column. I would like to replicate the output of proc means using proc tabulate. The spanrows option is a new feature of proc report new in sas 9. The xsl procedure transforms an xml document into another format, such as html, text, or another xml document type.
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. Proc tabulate determines the style attributes to use for a particular cell from the following default order of precedence for styles. Proc tabulate for simple statistics corrected ken beath, of macquarie university, commented on an earlier entry that the best way to generate summary statistics is using proc tabulate. However, the code is outputting 85 pdf documents each containing 85 tables for the distinct districts. The ods rtf statement produces output in rich text format rtf.
Sep 21, 2018 proc tabulate syntax does not have any specific options that insert blank rows into the table results. In those cases, you can specify the threads option in the proc tabulate statement to force proc tabulate to use parallel processing. Formatting headings for observations with missing class variables by default, as shown in computer sales data. Computing percentage using proc tabulate from simple to.
Dec 09, 2007 difference between proc report and proc tabulate. Paired statement used for paired ttest or use proc univariate on difference. The xsl procedure is new for the third maintenance release for sas 9. It can produce tables with one to three dimensions, and within each dimension it allows multiple variables to. This paper presents a several examples of proc tabulate ranging from fairly.
The tables were built using few procedure and ods options to ensure that the output we created was not 2. It computes many statistics that are computed by other procedures, such as means, freq, and report. The ods pdf statement produces output in portable document format pdf. This occurs when a class variable is crossed with a statistic in the row dimension and the class variable heading is blanked out. We are going to display the data using the proc report function. It was built by merging the staff, sales and cust sas. Pdf proc tabulate building tables with style researchgate. It was built by merging the staff, sales and cust sas data sets. Were going to add a table showing the number of observations to our table showing the mean rent. It can also handle multiple levels in both rows and columns whereas proc freq will only create two variable contingency tables.
In other words, proc tabulate maintains for subsequent categories the order that was established by earlier categories. This procedure is often used to create tables to be used in publications because it allows for a great. Proc tabulate is especially useful for qualitative variables or for breaking down quantitative variables for di erent class variables. Introduction to proc tabulate 6 proc tabulate once our data is in shape for analysis, you may wish to display the information in a table. The basic syntax for applying cross tabulation in sas is. Make that report look great using the versatile proc tabulate. The tabulate procedure 4 terminology 1155 terminology figure 37. Thank you for the detailed reply cynthia, actually when i too generated a second report with lesser variables in the proc tabulate, no blank page was generated. This is done by using the ods statement available in sas. Proc tabulate summarizes values for all observations in a data set and prints the summaries in table format. It describes which variables to use and how to arrange the variables. The var statement tells sas that these variables are analysis variables. The task of displaying statistical summaries of different types of variables in a single table is quite familiar to many sas users.
Proc tabulate has a reputation as a difficult tool to learn and debug. Expertise with sas base, sas macro, sas sql and sas ods rtf, pdf, xml, excel procedures. Proc tabulate is a possibility to report statistical relations between variables in up to three dimensions rows, columns, pages. The sample code creates a new data set variable that you can use in a class statement in the proc tabulate step. This sample shows you how to add a blank row between class variables in a proc tabulate table. Williams, icon clinical research, san francisco, ca. One way to accomplish this task is explained in sas sample 45972, add a blank row in proc tabulate output in ods destinations. Proc tabulate may create a blank row in html, pdf, and rtf output. This first table will have only one variable, so you dont have to tell tabulate where to put it. 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.
The subject is rich enough that an entire book is devoted to proc tabulate called proc tabulate by example, by lauren e. Sas proc report proc tabulate computing for research i january 22, 20. Data checking with sas proc tabulate my previous contributions on sas macro va riables van santen, 2009a,b introduced the basic aspects. In order to understand how wonderful spanrows is, you need to understand a basic difference between proc report and proc tabulate. A sas output delivery system menu for all appetites and. Beginning with the code for a basic table, step by step instructions will be provided to expand and enhance any table with proc tabulate. 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. The syntax for specifying a style element in a dimension expression is. Before the proc reg, we first sort the data by race and then open a. Later proc summary was introduced to create summary data sets.
When there is only one variable, you get a onedimensional table. Proc tabulate out export table as in the result sas support. This is the exact same dataset we used in the previous section. This paper takes a quick look at the basics of the proc tabulate then quickly introduces percentages, taking a. Following is the description of the parameters used. Ive used proc tabulate to generate 5 different tables and wrote those to a pdf document with ods. The tabulate procedure creates a separate category for each unique combination of values that exists in the observations of the data set. The one feature of proc tabulate is the ability to do both frequency and statistical calculations on the data, and report in a tabular form, a bit clunky at times. This occurs when a class variable is crossed with a statistic in the row dimension and. For more information about using styles, see using ods styles with proc tabulate. There are several ways to produce tabular output using sas.
Proc report, proc tabulate, proc print and ods on this online course with certificate. Broadly used sas macro for creating macro variables, macro programs and autocall macro. Introduction proc tabulate is a procedure used to display descriptive statistics in tabular format. The syntax used to invoke proc tabulate and proc report differ from one another, and both are complicated. How to use proc tabulate 3 another common operator is the asterisk. 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. It is mostly used to format the output data of a sas program to nice reports which are good to look at and understand. Below, we run a regression model separately for each of the four race categories in our data. The code and output for this paper was generated using base sas and sas graph software, version 9. Proc tabulate and proc report are both capable of generating similar tabular reports in many situations, each of these procedures has strengths and weaknesses.
The output from proc tabulate goes to each of these files. We used proc tabulate and proc report to create simple tables in the ods html and pdf destinations. Apr 06, 2020 in proc tabulate table dimensions, the word year. The class statement tells sas that these variables are categorical variables. 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. The output from a sas program can be converted to more user friendly forms like. Each category that is created by proc tabulate is represented by one or more cells in the table where the pages, rows, and columns that describe the category intersect. Sas cloud analytic services processing for proc tabulate. Introduction to proc tabulate sas proceedings and more. Example without using proc tabulate here is the situation. Proc tabulate creates a separate table for each by group, so that the ordering can differ from one by group to the next. Adding blank rows in tabulate procedure results sas users. Proc tabulate computes many of the same statistics that are computed by other descriptive statistical procedures such as means, freq, and report. Tabulate procedure 14 references 1474 chapter 59 the template procedure 1475.