The REPORT Procedure

WEIGHT Statement

Specifies weights for analysis variables in the statistical calculations.

See also:

For information about calculating weighted statistics see Calculating Weighted Statistics. For an example that uses the WEIGHT statement, see Weighted Statistics Example.

WEIGHT variable;

Required Arguments

variable

specifies a numeric variable whose values weight the values of the analysis variables. The value of the variable does not have to be an integer. If the value of variable is

Weight value...	PROC REPORT...
0	counts the observation in the total number of observations
less than 0	converts the value to zero and counts the observation in the total number of observations
missing	excludes the observation

To exclude observations that contain negative and zero weights from the analysis, use EXCLNPWGT. Note that most SAS/STAT procedures, such as PROC GLM, exclude negative and zero weights by default.

Restriction:	PROC REPORT will not compute MODE when a weight variable is active. Instead, try using PROC UNIVARIATE when MODE needs to be computed and a weight variable is active.
Tip:	When you use the WEIGHT statement, consider which value of the VARDEF= option is appropriate. See VARDEF= and the calculation of weighted statistics in Keywords and Formulas for more information.

Note: Before Version 7 of SAS, the procedure did not exclude the observations with missing weights from the count of observations. [cautionend]

Weight Information Is Not Saved

When you store a report definition, PROC REPORT does not store the WEIGHT statement.

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