Hi, I was missing on the pre-summarized data. So i created the data set with count for each level of variable 'died' and then used that as input to sgpanel to plot the graph. **sorting at two levels --> year & died; proc sort data=work.bcdata out=work.bcdata_year; by year died; run; **pre-summarizing based on 'died'; data work.bc_died; set work.bcdata_year (keep=died year); by year died; if first.died then count=0; count+1; if last.died then output; run; **ODS graph; proc sgpanel data=work.bc_died; panelby died; series x=year y=count/datalabel markers; colaxis values=(2005 to 2008 by 1); rowaxis values=(0 to 20000 by 5000); run; Your suggestion of PROC FREQ to eliminate the missing sounds apt. Thanks again! Shantha B ... View more