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Presenting data in a tabular format using SAS EG (Proc Freq, Proc report, Proc Tabulate)

Sangita1 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 04:19:04 GMT

Hi, I have a dataset as below: Sample: For 3 Academic years, across 3 campuses I have Students which can fall into 4 different Status. I need to print a report.

Currently I export the data in Excel and then create a pivot on the data where I have Rows as AY Year and Campus and Column as Retain Status and Values as Count of (term1_student). I know in SAS also we can create pivots and tables but I am not able to create the table. I am relatively new to SAS and have tried Proc Freq, Proc tabulate, proc report, tableeditor files but I keep on getting into some or other errors. Your help is greatly appreciated.

AY Year Campus Retain_Status Term1_Student

2015-2016 Campus1 Retained uid1

2015-2016 Campus2 Retained uid2

2015-2016 Campus3 Retained uid3

2015-2016 Campus1 Withdrawn uid4

2015-2016 Campus1 Graduated uid5

2015-2016 Campus1 NOT Retained uid6

2015-2016 Campus2 Retained uid7

2015-2016 Campus3 Retained uid8

2015-2016 Campus2 Withdrawn uid9

2015-2016 Campus1 Graduated uid10

2016-2017 Campus1 Retained uid11

2016-2017 Campus2 Retained uid12

2016-2017 Campus3 Retained uid13

2016-2017 Campus1 Withdrawn uid14

2016-2017 Campus1 Graduated uid15

2016-2017 Campus1 NOT Retained uid16

2016-2017 Campus2 Retained uid17

2016-2017 Campus3 Retained uid18

2016-2017 Campus2 Withdrawn uid19

2016-2017 Campus1 Graduated uid20

2015-2016 Campus1 Retained uid21

2017-2018 Campus2 Retained uid22

2017-2018 Campus3 Retained uid23

2017-2018 Campus1 Withdrawn uid24

2017-2018 Campus1 Graduated uid25

2017-2018 Campus1 NOT Retained uid26

2017-2018 Campus2 Retained uid27

2017-2018 Campus3 Retained uid28

2017-2018 Campus2 Withdrawn uid29

2017-2018 Campus1 Graduated uid30

I want the report to look like below (The data values below are just made up in the below example but they are the number of students that fall into that status for the campus within Academic Year):

Graduated Retained Withdrawn Not Retained
2015-2016 Campus1 2 1 3 2

Campus2 1 4 1

Campus3 2 1 1

2016-2017 Campus1 2 1 3 2

Campus2 1 4 1

Campus3 2 1 1

2017-2018 Campus1 2 1 3 2

Campus2 1 4 1

Campus3 2 1 1

Thank you.

Re: Presenting data in a tabular format using SAS EG (Proc Freq, Proc report, Proc Tabulate)

ChrisNZ — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:11:24 GMT

I can't run the code since you don;t provide the data in a usable format, but something like this should work:

proc tabulate;

table YEAR=' ' * CAMPUS=' ',STATUS=' ' * n=' ';

Re: Presenting data in a tabular format using SAS EG (Proc Freq, Proc report, Proc Tabulate)

ballardw — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 23:13:14 GMT

@ChrisNZ wrote:

I can't run the code since you don;t provide the data in a usable format, but something like this should work:

proc tabulate;

table YEAR=' ' * CAMPUS=' ',STATUS=' ' * n=' ';

Don't forget a CLASS statement to let the procedure know that Year, Campus and Status will be used as categorical variables. Tabulate is picky that way.

Re: Presenting data in a tabular format using SAS EG (Proc Freq, Proc report, Proc Tabulate)

Cynthia_sas — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:52:12 GMT

Hi:

With some fake data for a few years, and with grand totals, it looks like this with PROC TABULATE:

and like THIS with PROC REPORT

Cynthia

Re: Presenting data in a tabular format using SAS EG (Proc Freq, Proc report, Proc Tabulate)

Sangita1 — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:16:48 GMT

Hi Cynthia_sas,

Proc tabulate did the magic and I was able to move forward. For some reason, Proc Report kept on erroring and I was not able to get that to work. I think Proc report gives more control for subtotals etc. which Proc Tabulate might not do. But for now, I can move forward. I really appreciate your help. Learning slowly as I go. Thank you.