PROC SURVEYMEANS and calculating SD

[Emma_at_SAS]

Here: 

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Ask-the-Expert/What-Are-Best-Practices-for-Using-SAS-Survey-Procedure...

I found this:

Why does PROC SURVEYMEANS not report Standard deviations? 

PROC SURVEYMEANS computes the NOBS, MEAN, STDERR, and CLM statistics by default, but you can request standard deviation by adding STD as an option. Please check the documentation for additional keywords.

However, PROC SURVEYMEANS only calculates STD when I add SUM and the output for STD is Std Error
of Sum. Do you have other suggestions? Thanks

[Reeza]

Show your code.

FYI - looking at the reference you've linked to it does not match the documentation. SAS is doing what is stated in the documentation. I don't see an option to calculate a standard deviation. But I suspect there's a conceptually good reason for this with weighted survey data but my brain is kinda done for the weekend now. 

I would first look into if this is statistically valid.

[Emma_at_SAS]

Thank you, Reeza. Yes, the good reason is explained in the document that gcjfernandez shared. It seems a finite population adjustment task. Thanks

[gcjfernandez · Accepted solution]

This topic is covered in the following esource: https://support.sas.com/kb/45/701.html

Please review.

Thanks

[Emma_at_SAS]

Thank you, gcjfernandez! That is the solution.