The TABULATE Procedure

Terminology: TABULATE Procedure

The following figures illustrate some of the terms that are commonly used in discussions of PROC TABULATE.

Parts of a PROC TABULATE Table

[Parts of a PROC TABULATE Table]

PROC TABULATE Table Dimensions

[PROC TABULATE Table Dimensions]

In addition, the following terms frequently appear in discussions of PROC TABULATE:

category

the combination of unique values of class variables. The TABULATE procedure creates a separate category for each unique combination of values that exists in the observations of the data set. Each category that is created by PROC TABULATE is represented by one or more cells in the table where the pages, rows, and columns that describe the category intersect.

The table in Parts of a PROC TABULATE Table contains three class variables: Region, Division, and Type. These class variables form the eight categories listed in the following table. (For convenience, the categories are described in terms of their formatted values.)

Categories Created from Three Class Variables
Region	Division	Type
Northeast	New England	Residential Customers
Northeast	New England	Business Customers
Northeast	Middle Atlantic	Residential Customers
Northeast	Middle Atlantic	Business Customers
West	Mountain	Residential Customers
West	Mountain	Business Customers
West	Pacific	Residential Customers
West	Pacific	Business Customers

continuation message

the text that appears below the table if it spans multiple physical pages.

nested variable

a variable whose values appear in the table with each value of another variable.

In Parts of a PROC TABULATE Table, Division is nested under Region.

page dimension text

the text that appears above the table if the table has a page dimension. However, if you specify BOX=_PAGE_ in the TABLE statement, then the text that would appear above the table appears in the box. In PROC TABULATE Table Dimensions, the word Year:, followed by the value, is the page dimension text.

Page dimension text has a style. The default style is Beforecaption. For more information about using styles, see STYLE= in What is the Output Delivery System? in the SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.

subtable

the group of cells that is produced by crossing a single element from each dimension of the TABLE statement when one or more dimensions contain concatenated elements.

Parts of a PROC TABULATE Table contains no subtables. For an illustration of a table that consists of multiple subtables, see Illustration of the Four Subtables.

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