topic proc tabulate percentages by group and column in SAS Programming

proc tabulate percentages by group and column

jsasusr — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:25:13 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to calculate the percentage in proc tabulate for a group of colleges. I've created a sum, then a percentage of a column's total, but my output gives the total percentage based on the entire group of colleges and not an individual college.

title;
proc tabulate data=complement_master format=comma9.;
format FT $fte. level $lvl.;
var sch;
class COLLEGE level ft;
table  (COLLEGE ALL)*(FT ALL='College Total'), SCH*LEVEL*(SUM COLPCTSUM="%"*f=BEST4.)
SCH ALL='Total'
/misstext='0' printmiss;
WHERE SUBJECTCOLL IN ('AR', 'BU');
title 'Table 4 - SCH by College, Type of Faculty and Level of Instruction, % WRONG';
quit;

The percentages should only be calculated for the college of "AR" and the College of "BU". Basically, sums and percentages for each college and a total summary for the entire school.

Am I making sense?

Also, I am using Base SAS 9.

Re: proc tabulate percentages by group and column

ballardw — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:48:57 GMT

You can specify a denominator class variable using pctn<classvar> or pctsum<classvar>. Do not use the <classvar> with rowpct or colpct statistics.

So you may be wanting Pctsum<college> instead of colpctsum.

But without any data its hard to be sure.

Re: proc tabulate percentages by group and column

jsasusr — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:52:01 GMT

Thank you. I appreciate your time.

If I understand you correctly, I modified it a bit to show this:

title;
proc tabulate data=complement_master format=comma9.;
format FT $fte. level $lvl.;
var sch;
class COLLEGE level ft;
table  (COLLEGE ALL)*(FT ALL='College Total'), (LEVEL ALL)*SCH*(SUM PCTSUM<COLLEGE ALL>="%"*f=BEST4.)
SCH ALL='Total'
/misstext='0' printmiss;
WHERE SUBJECTCOLL IN ('AR', 'BU');
title 'Table 4 - SCH by College, Type of Faculty and Level of Instruction, % WRONG';
quit;

I'm attaching the output table. The school Architecture is showing 18.3%. It is the percentage of FT (Full Time) to the Total college (1,163/6,357). It should be 1,163/1,527 or 76.2% . I've tried substituting or leaving out ALL in the <COLLEGE> classvar, but the error message is PctSum based is not in table. A PctSum crossing has no denominator.

Re: proc tabulate percentages by group and column

Bedi — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 12:19:39 GMT

Hello, I am facing the same issue ...was this resolved ?

Re: proc tabulate percentages by group and column

jsasusr — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 15:06:16 GMT

I apologize for the late reply. I have been out of the country. That problem wasn't resolved. It was a while ago, but I think I had to create a work around (i.e, created a different report).