PROC SURVEYFREQ computes the estimate of the row proportion for table cell as the ratio of the estimated total for the table cell to the estimated total for row ,
Similarly, PROC SURVEYFREQ estimates the column proportion for table cell as the ratio of the estimated total for the table cell to the estimated total for column ,
If you request BRR variance estimation (VARMETHOD=BRR), PROC SURVEYFREQ estimates the variances of the row and column proportions as described in the section Balanced Repeated Replication (BRR). If you request jackknife variance estimation (VARMETHOD=JACKKNIFE), the procedure estimates the variances as described in the section The Jackknife Method.
If you do not specify the VARMETHOD= option or a REPWEIGHTS statement, the default variance estimation method is Taylor series (VARMETHOD=TAYLOR). By using Taylor series linearization, the variance of the row proportion estimate can be expressed as
where if ,
and if ,
The standard error of the row proportion is computed as
The Taylor series variance estimate for the column proportion is computed as described previously for the row proportion, but with