topic Re: Add percentage sign to output in SAS Programming

Add percentage sign to output

DavidKaib — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:44:06 GMT

I would like to have the output from this code apply a percentage sign.

proc tabulate;

class URMG Department Period;

table (department all), Period*URMG*(pctn<URMG>)/printmiss misstext='0' nocellmerge;

run;

Re: Add percentage sign to output

PaigeMiller — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:03:01 GMT

From the PROC TABULATE documentation, you just need to add a format.

format modifiers

define how to format values in cells. Use the asterisk (*) operator to associate a format modifier with the element (an analysis variable or a statistic) that produces the cells that you want to format. Format modifiers have the form

f=format

Tip	Format modifiers have no effect on CLASS variables.
See	For more information about specifying formats in tables, see Formatting Values in Tables.
Example	Sales*f=dollar8.2

In your case, you want the PERCENTw.d format

Re: Add percentage sign to output

ballardw — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:07:16 GMT

You will have to create a custom format to work with the Tabulate PCT functions.

You don't say how many decimals you might want. The example below will show 1 decimal point.

proc format;
picture custpct
0 - high ='0009.9%'
;
run;

Read the documentation of the Proc Format Picture statement for details.

How to modify your code to use the format:

proc tabulate;
   class URMG Department Period;
  table (department all), 
           Period*URMG*(pctn<URMG>*f=custpct.)
          /printmiss misstext='0' nocellmerge;
run;

The *F=<some format> overrides the default format for that particular PCTN or other percent calculations.

Re: Add percentage sign to output

ballardw — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:09:50 GMT

@PaigeMiller wrote:

From the PROC TABULATE documentation, you just need to add a format.

format modifiers

define how to format values in cells. Use the asterisk (*) operator to associate a format modifier with the element (an analysis variable or a statistic) that produces the cells that you want to format. Format modifiers have the form
f=format

Tip Format modifiers have no effect on CLASS variables.

See For more information about specifying formats in tables, see Formatting Values in Tables.

Example Sales*f=dollar8.2

In your case, you want the PERCENTw.d format

The internal values that Tabulate applies the format to are multiplied by 100. So what would default to appearing as 15.1 will result in 1510% with wide enough Percentw.d format applied.