Creating Detail and Summary Reports with the REPORT Procedure

Introduction to Creating Detail and Summary Reports with the REPORT Procedure

SAS provides a variety of report writing tools that produce detail and summary reports. The reports enable you to communicate information about your data in an organized, concise manner. The REPORT procedure enables you to create detail and summary reports in a single report writing tool.

In this section, you will learn how to use PROC REPORT to do the following:

produce simple detail reports
produce simple summary reports
produce enhanced reports by adding additional statements that order and group observations, sum columns, and compute overall totals
customize the appearance of reports by adding column spacing, column labels, line separators, and formats

Prerequisites

To understand the examples in this section, you should be familiar with the following features and concepts:

data set options
the TITLE statement
the LABEL statement
WHERE processing
creating and assigning SAS formats

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