SAS® Guide to Report Writing: Examples, Second Edition

Chapter 3. Summary Reports

A summary report summarizes observations in a data set. Summary reports can range from presentations of simple frequency counts to complex tables of descriptive statistics for categories defined by the combinations of several variables in the data set.

The examples in this chapter describe ways in which you can prepare summary reports. Each example presents a different style of summary report. Three procedures—REPORT, TABULATE, and MEANS—create the summary reports in this chapter. All examples use PROC FORMAT to assign labels to categories or to group categories. One example focuses on a special feature of PROC FORMAT that assigns multiple labels to categories.

All examples in this chapter send output to the default ...