Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis

Formatting the output

When the output is produced, the headers have the name of the variables. This can be modified to make the tables self-explanatory. We can add the narration in the Table statement in the Tabulate procedure:

Proc Tabulate Data=Customer_X;  Class Height;  Var Basketball;  Table Basketball="No. of Students Playing Basketball"*  Sum="Total No. of Students"*Height;Run;

This produces the following output:

Without formatting, the output would have been as follows:

Clearly, the interpretation of the formatted output is more intuitive ...