If you look at the Proc Format documentation you will see that there are a number of options that we have not addressed in this topic. One thing is to code a value format with different options and see if that helps. Then use the CNTLOUT option on proc format to see what the values set in the format used were so you can incorporate those elements into your format. Also note that several procs have ORDER = directives that may interact with formats. For instance the DEFINE block supporst ORDER = with options of Data, Formatted, Freq and Internal. Without a specific instruction the default is Formatted, which will generally be the alphabetic order of your country format. So you would Lithuania, Other, Poland. For Proc report you could either insure that the order of the data read into the procedure is the order you want and use the Order=Data option or go another step to create a variable that would be in the sequence you want, probably a numeric, and assign that sequence variable an equivalent and use the Order=internal option. The steps above to get the format could also get you an informat, Invalue in proc format, to transform the name to a sequence variable.
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