topic How to summarize the frequency distribution for all variables in SAS Procedures

How to summarize the frequency distribution for all variables

bncoxuk — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:42:01 GMT

Hi,

I want to summarize the frequency distribution for all the nominal variables in a dataset. Suppose the four nominal variables are: age (Y, M, O), sex (M, F), marriage (S, D, M, C), status (H, M, L). You can see here each nominal variable has multiple levels, My task is to summarize the frequency for each level of the variables. I don't want to use separate steps of PROC FREQ or PROC SUMMARY to do this. I want to get the results in a single procedure and save the results in a data set.

Thanks for help.

How to summarize the frequency distribution for all variables

SteveDenham — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:24:41 GMT

I think PROC MEANS would give everything you need.

proc means data=have noprint;

class age sex marriage status;

var variablename; /*put in all that you need here*/

output out=want;

run;

Look at work.want. The _FREQ_ variable will give the counts, _TYPE_ would give all the possible combinations, so that you could slice and dice as needed.

How to summarize the frequency distribution for all variables

andreas_lds — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:28:07 GMT

Without any example data given this is just a blind guess:

proc summary data=work.bob;

class age sex marriage status;

output out=work.frequencies;

run;

How to summarize the frequency distribution for all variables

data_null__ — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:00:50 GMT

I like the stacked tables produced by PROC FREQ.

ods listing close;

proc freq data=sashelp.class;

tables sex age;

ods output OneWayFreqs=Freq;

run;

ods output close;

ods listing;

proc print;

run;

How to summarize the frequency distribution for all variables

bncoxuk — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:33:35 GMT

Hi everyone,

Thanks for help. I tried every answer and all worked. So all are correct answer. The forum system cannot give me the rating of correct answer for all responses. So I just randomly pick one and make the others as helpful.