Am I correct that the part of your question that pertains to "making scales" refers to combing the items in, e.g., Job Satisfaction, into one overall score that combines the several items listed in that section? Also, is your statement regarding "reliability testing" related to those same subsets of items.   Assuming that I am correct, why are you even mentioning the other background measures such as age, etc.?  What role, if any, do they play in the questions you are posing. ... View more

I don't know what "scale diagnostics" are so I can't help with that part.   PROC FREQ has a Chi-squared option, but there are many other ways to get chi-squared tests in SAS; and saying what test you want is not the same as saying what analysis you'd like to do. So please indicate what the statistical analysis method is that you'd like to use. ... View more