PROC TABULATE by Example, Second Edition

A Statistic’s Label Is Blank, but a Space Is Left in the Row Label

There is more to specifying a blank label than just putting VARNAME=‘ ’ in the TABLE statement.

For example, the following code correctly specifies blank labels for both the variable HOURLY and the statistic MEAN:

PROC TABULATE DATA=TEMP;
   CLASS AGE CTRY;
   VAR HOURLY;
   TABLE AGE*HOURLY=' '*MEAN=' ', CTRY=' '
      / BOX='Mean Hourly Wage';
RUN;

But if you look at Output 17.11, you can see that while the two labels are blank, the two boxes created to hold them were left in the row headings. This is because we forgot one step in removing labels.

Output 17.11 Table with Leftover Empty Boxes

The first thing you have to do is to make them blank by assigning a VARNAME=‘ ’ label, which ...