Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

Chapter 6: Refining Our Understanding of the PROC REPORT Step 115

We see that the data associated with the missing clinic name has been excluded from the table.

Refining REPORT Appearance

Without MISSING Option

height weight

in in

region clinic name inches pounds

11 Boston National Medical 0.0 .

Including the MISSING option on the DEFINE statement makes the missing clinic name a valid

classification (grouping) variable.

* Using MISSING on the DEFINE statement;

title1 'Refining REPORT Appearance';

title2 'MISSING Option on DEFINE Statement';

proc report data=reg11 nowd;

column region clinname ht wt;

define region / group format=$6.; ...