topic percentage shares of a character variables value in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/percentage-shares-of-a-character-variables-value/m-p/87847#M18767 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi SAS-users,</P><P></P><P>is there a possibility to calculate the share of certain values of character variable within the whole value set, without counting the number of observations. I tried it with the procedure frequ and means, but it always resulted in complete number of observations instead of percentage shares.</P><P></P><P>For instance I want the percentage share of the variable drgh having the value 'K44Z' in relation to my complete number of observations.</P><P></P><P>Best,</P><P>Dennis</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:07:39 GMT dennisl 2013-03-25T18:07:39Z percentage shares of a character variables value https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/percentage-shares-of-a-character-variables-value/m-p/87847#M18767 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi SAS-users,</P><P></P><P>is there a possibility to calculate the share of certain values of character variable within the whole value set, without counting the number of observations. I tried it with the procedure frequ and means, but it always resulted in complete number of observations instead of percentage shares.</P><P></P><P>For instance I want the percentage share of the variable drgh having the value 'K44Z' in relation to my complete number of observations.</P><P></P><P>Best,</P><P>Dennis</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:07:39 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/percentage-shares-of-a-character-variables-value/m-p/87847#M18767 dennisl 2013-03-25T18:07:39Z Re: percentage shares of a character variables value https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/percentage-shares-of-a-character-variables-value/m-p/87848#M18768 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sorry, I was too blind too detect the percentage shares on my output file. Guess I need a break from SAS.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:10:31 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/percentage-shares-of-a-character-variables-value/m-p/87848#M18768 dennisl 2013-03-25T18:10:31Z