Chapter 10: Creating Formats and Labels
What Is a SAS Format and Why Is It Useful?
It is a common practice to store information in a database using codes rather than actual values. For example, you might have a questionnaire where the responses are strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, and strongly agree. It would be unusual to store the actual values in your database. Rather, you would use coded values such as 1=strongly disagree, 2=disagree, and so on.
Even though you are storing codes in your database, you would like to see the actual labels printed in your output. SAS formats are the tool that allows this to happen.
To demonstrate how to create your own SAS formats, let’s start with a SAS data set called Taxes, described in Table ...
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