When you build a one-dimensional
table, PROC TABULATE takes your table definition and builds a table
with a single row and many columns. There is no option to ask for
a one-dimensional table that has a single column and many rows.
This can be a problem
if your table turns out to be extremely wide. When your table becomes
too wide for the page, PROC TABULATE generates a "Continued"
message and builds the additional columns on a second page. This makes
your table hard to read.
For example, take the
following table. This shows the number of observations in the data
set for each occupation:
PROC TABULATE DATA=TEMP;
CLASS OCCUP;
TABLE OCCUP=' '*N*F=15.;
RUN;
In Output
14.12, you can see that ...