The CHART Procedure

Example 2: Producing a Percentage Bar Chart

Procedure features:

VBAR statement option:

TYPE=

Data set:

This example produces a vertical bar chart. The chart statistic is the percentage for each category of the total number of shirts sold.

Program

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=60;

proc chart data=shirts;
   vbar size / type=percent;

   title 'Percentage of Total Sales for Each Shirt Size';
run;

Output: Listing

                 Percentage of Total Sales for Each Shirt Size                 1

                Percentage

                   |                   *****
                   |                   *****
                40 +                   *****
                   |                   *****
                   |                   *****
                   |                   *****
                   |                   *****
                35 +       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****
                30 +       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****
                25 +       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                20 +       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                15 +       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                10 +       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                 5 +       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   |       *****       *****       *****
                   --------------------------------------------
                           large      medium       small

                                       Size

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