topic Remove decimal points in PROC FREQ cross tab in SAS Programming

Remove decimal points in PROC FREQ cross tab

DavidKaib — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:27:57 GMT

I am using this code:

proc freq;
tables VAR1 * VAR2 /nocum nopercent norow NOFREQ;
run;

To produce this output:

VAR1	VAR2
			Total
	One	Two
A	47.79	67.86
B	31.86	28.57
C	15.93	0
D	4.42	3.57
Total	113	28	141

Which is exactly what I need, except I would like to remove the decimal points. How can I do that?

Re: Remove decimal points in PROC FREQ cross tab

Tom — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:18:24 GMT

Is PROC FREQ even what you want to use for this?

I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do. Especially since you did not provide any actual data. Based on the column percents and totals you provided it looks your data looks like this:

data have ;
  input var1 :$1. @;
  do var2='One','Two';
    input count @;
    output;
  end;
cards;    
A 54 19
B 36  8
C 18  0
D 5   1
;

Why do you want to print the column percentages without the decimal places?

Why do you want to print the column percentages and the raw totals in the same column of your report?

Re: Remove decimal points in PROC FREQ cross tab

Ksharp — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:33:43 GMT

You need to customize a template for this purpose.

Here take sashelp.heart as an example:

ods noproctitle;
ods path (prepend) work.templat(update);
proc template;
edit Base.Freq.CrossTabFreqs;
edit Frequency;
format=COMMA12.;
end;
edit Percent;
format=8.0;
end;
edit RowPercent;
format=8.0;
end;
edit ColPercent;
format=8.0;
end;
end;
run;
/**/
/*ods html file="userfmt.html" style=daisy;*/
/*title "Applying Custom Formats to Cellvalues";*/
/*proc freq;*/
/*tables citygovt*robgrp / missprint;*/
/*run;*/
/*ods html close;*/


proc freq data=sashelp.heart;
tables bp_status * sex /nocum nopercent norow NOFREQ ;
run;

Re: Remove decimal points in PROC FREQ cross tab

FreelanceReinh — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:33:44 GMT

Hello @DavidKaib,

Do you want to get 48 instead of 47.79, ..., 4 instead of 4.42, ... as the column percentages? If so, you could modify the corresponding ODS template, but make sure not to corrupt the original template.

For example, if I submit

ods path show;

in a SAS session using the RSASUSER system option, I get

1. WORK.TEMPLAT(UPDATE)
2. SASUSER.TEMPLAT(READ)
3. SASHELP.TMPLMST(READ)

which means that the relevant original template Base.Freq.CrossTabFreqs in SASHELP.TMPLMST is read-only and modifications would be written to the temporary WORK.TEMPLAT template store. So I can safely apply the EDIT statement of the TEMPLATE procedure to ColPercent to change the format of the column percentages from the default 6.2 to the 3. format:

proc template;
edit Base.Freq.CrossTabFreqs;

  edit ColPercent;
    format=3.;
  end;

end;
run;

Subsequent PROC FREQ outputs in the same session use the modified format until I delete the modified template.

proc template;
delete Base.Freq.CrossTabFreqs;
run;