Handbook of SAS DATA Step Programming

31Introduction to SAS

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“Ethnicity.” Notice that the label attribute for the INCOME variable is listed

in the output because the INCOME variable is assigned a permanent label in

the DATA step in Program 1.17.

Program 1.18:

title 'Assign temporary label to RACE variable';

proc means data = hearing1_1 mean median std;

label race = Ethnicity;

class race;

var income;

run;

Output from Program 1.18:

Assign temporary label to RACE variable

The MEANS Procedure

Analysis Variable : Income People's Income

Ethnicity N Obs Mean Median Std Dev

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

A 5 61420.00 39100.00 45499.25

B 5 61200.00 39100.00 44726.45

H 4 44800.00 37000.00 21332.92

W 20 53575.00 48550.00 25353.54

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