Step-by-Step Programming with Base SAS 9.4

Creating Enhanced Reports

Ways to Enhance a Report

With just a few PROC PRINT statements and options, you can produce a variety of detail reports. By using additional statements and options that enhance the reports, you can do the following using PROC PRINT:

• format the columns
• sum the numeric variables
• group the observations based on variable values
• sum the groups of variable values
• group the observations in separate sections

The examples in this section use the SAS data set QTR02, which was created in Input File and SAS Data Sets for Examples.

Specifying Formats for the Variables

Specifying the formats of variables is a simple yet effective way to enhance the readability of your reports. By adding the FORMAT statement ...