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You might want to display a percent sign (%) after the percents in your table created by PROC TABULATE. If you were to try to use the PERCENTw.d format, remember that it multiplies data values by 100, formats them the same as the BESTw.d format, and adds a percent sign (%) to the end of the formatted value, while it encloses negative values in parentheses. The PERCENTw.d format allows room for a percent sign and parentheses, even if the value is not negative.

PROC TABULATE has already multipled the mean values by 100 to compute the percent. Therefore, if you use the PERCENTw.d format to format the percent values, the values will be incorrect.

Since you do not want the value multiplied by 100, you will need to create a picture format using PROC FORMAT to add the percent sign to the value. Please see the sample program on the Full Code tab for an example.

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proc format;                           
   picture mypct low-high='000,009%';   
run; 

proc tabulate data=sashelp.class;
   class name sex;
   var weight height; 
   table name, sex*(weight height)*(pctsum*f=mypct.);
run;

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