topic Control order of values displayed in Proc Freq output in SAS Programming

Control order of values displayed in Proc Freq output

abuanuazu — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:34:11 GMT

I keep getting the output on racegrp, "Other" option displayed either in the middle or at the top of the result. see attached in details for sas code and output.

Thanks.

Re: sas output

Reeza — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 02:29:55 GMT

The standard way around this is to code the variables as numeric and use formats to apply the displayed value.

You also don't say what you want, so this is a bit of a guess.

Re: sas output

abuanuazu — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:11:50 GMT

Thank you Reeza for prompt response. To make clear, I want the the output table to produce as coded, White, Black, & Other in a sequence.

Thanks

Re: sas output

Reeza — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:32:31 GMT

Code white as 1, black as 2, other as 3, and apply proc format.

proc format;
value race_fmt
1 = 'White'
2 = 'Black'
3 = 'Other';
run;

data have;
set have;
if race='White' then cat=1;
else if race='Black' then cat=2;
else cat=3;
run;

proc freq data=have;
table cat;
format cat race_fmt.;
run;

Re: sas output

abuanuazu — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:52:20 GMT

Reeza,

As always, you have a solution to the question. I attached the solution output.

Thanks

Re: sas output

Ksharp — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 02:30:20 GMT

Reeza's solution is a little bit of complicated. Create a new dummy variable CAT and padding blanks before it .

data have;
set have;
length cat $ 40;
if race='White' then cat='  White';
else if race='Black' then cat=' Black' ;
else cat='Other';
run;

proc freq data=have;
table cat;
run;

Re: Control order of values displayed in Proc Freq output

FreelanceReinh — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:02:56 GMT

@abuanuazu: In your specific case you could have achieved the desired result even easier, without any additional steps:

proc freq data=have order=freq;
tables racegrp;
run;

The ORDER=FREQ option sorts the categories by descending frequency counts.

Re: sas output

data_null__ — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:16:59 GMT

@ReezaI would say the "standard" SAS way to do this is by using features of PRELOADFORMAT and NOTSORTED value label formats.