Hi:
PROC TABULATE is creating a summary report table -- usually a cross-tabular table -- there are no "observations" -- per se -- in a PROC TABULATE report table. Your observations go "into" TABULATE and what comes out of TABULATE is a summarized table. It would be hard to insert "reader breaks" into a PROC TABULATE report table in the same way that the BLANKLINE option works with PROC PRINT. There are other ODS techniques that you can use with TABULATE (such as banding -- discussed below).
As an example, consider this table created by PROC TABULATE for the SASHELP.PRDSALE dataset:
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+----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| | Region | |
| |--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------| |
| | EAST | WEST | |
| |--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------| |
| | Actual Sales | Actual Sales |Actual Sales|
| |------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| | Min | Mean | Max | Min | Mean | Max | Sum |
|-------------------+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
|Country |Product | | | | | | | |
|-------------------+--------------------| | | | | | | |
|CANADA |BED | 42.00| 566.58| 993.00| 13.00| 427.77| 957.00| 47729.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |CHAIR | 14.00| 525.00| 995.00| 21.00| 521.65| 1000.00| 50239.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |DESK | 20.00| 521.25| 997.00| 35.00| 565.98| 990.00| 52187.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |SOFA | 5.00| 502.58| 999.00| 3.00| 541.90| 958.00| 50135.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |TABLE | 43.00| 540.52| 968.00| 6.00| 432.40| 971.00| 46700.00|
|-------------------+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
|GERMANY |BED | 15.00| 490.35| 962.00| 3.00| 470.77| 916.00| 46134.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |CHAIR | 13.00| 484.94| 951.00| 28.00| 496.42| 986.00| 47105.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |DESK | 14.00| 529.23| 996.00| 22.00| 481.23| 991.00| 48502.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |SOFA | 30.00| 546.13| 996.00| 41.00| 600.96| 996.00| 55060.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |TABLE | 33.00| 544.08| 1000.00| 25.00| 480.85| 983.00| 49197.00|
|-------------------+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
|U.S.A. |BED | 9.00| 482.02| 926.00| 18.00| 521.60| 984.00| 48174.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |CHAIR | 54.00| 570.38| 964.00| 31.00| 490.79| 960.00| 50936.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |DESK | 41.00| 483.19| 984.00| 6.00| 528.13| 955.00| 48543.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |SOFA | 4.00| 463.81| 895.00| 22.00| 440.21| 961.00| 43393.00|
| |--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
| |TABLE | 14.00| 463.71| 956.00| 56.00| 500.94| 972.00| 46303.00|
+-------------------+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
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What you see in this table are not "observations" -- it is summarized information based on this code:
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proc tabulate data=sashelp.prdsale;
class region product country;
var actual;
table country*product,
region*(actual*(min mean max)) actual*sum;
run;
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If I needed to make this table smaller or more readable, I'd consider these things:
1) using the PAGE dimension to put every country on a different page
2) using BY group processing to put every country on a different page
3) using "banding" techniques with ODS to make every country's rows a different color (see this Tech Support example)
http://support.sas.com/kb/25/addl/fusion25401_1_odstab10.htm (where all the NC rows are green and all the NE rows are white, etc)
http://support.sas.com/kb/25/401.html
4) Create an output data set with PROC TABULATE and then use that dataset with PROC PRINT and the BLANKLINE option.
cynthia