topic Re: A Proc Tabulate question in SAS Procedures

A Proc Tabulate question

Solph — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:38:31 GMT

Hi,

I grew to like using proc tabulate for output tables, but sometimes it's hard to follow the logic.

Say if I want to run a crosstab of health condition by sex (so column %) for each year and each country. I tried the following but it's giving me the column percent across all cases, not within a country and for each year. How do I change the? I didn't make a sample data but if needed, I could do it.

proc tabulate data=have;

class country year heath_status sex;

table (country year _status), sex* COLPCTN;

run;

Many thanks.

Re: A Proc Tabulate question

Ksharp — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:17:49 GMT

What does your data look like ? Maybe you need :

table (country year _status), sex* COLPCTN all*COLPCTN ;

Re: A Proc Tabulate question

Cynthia_sas — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 19:40:38 GMT

Hi:

I see that your TABLE statement doesn't have any * (asterisk) operators. Also, you show health_status in the CLASS statement, but then use _status in the TABLE statement. Does your code even produce output? Do you have error messages in the LOG that _status is not defined?

You can define special denominators for percents using the < and > operators. Generally, you use them in conjunction with nesting using the * operator. The TABULATE documentation has some examples of using a special denominator definition.

Base SAS(R) 9.3 Procedures Guide, Second Edition

cynthia