Overview The TABULATE procedure gives you power and flexibility in summarizing your data in table form. You can create a variety of tables ranging from simple to highly customized, including one-, two-, and three-dimensional tables that display any of a large number of descriptive statistics. You can modify virtually every feature of a table calculate percentages produce subreports without sorting data summarize data and produce a report in one step generate multiple tables in one step. PROC TABULATE computes many of the same statistics that are computed by other descriptive statistical procedures such as MEANS, FREQ, and REPORT.