The TABULATE Procedure

Terminology

Illustration of Terms Used to Discuss PROC TABULATE illustrates some of the terms that are commonly used in discussions of PROC TABULATE.

Illustration of Terms Used to Discuss PROC TABULATE

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In addition, the following terms frequently appear in discussions of PROC TABULATE:

category

the combination of unique values of class variables. The TABULATE procedure creates a separate category for each unique combination of values that exists in the observations of the data set. Each category that is created by PROC TABULATE is represented by one or more cells in the table where the pages, rows, and columns that describe the category intersect.

The table in Illustration of Terms Used to Discuss PROC TABULATE contains three class variables: Region, Division, and Type. These class variables form the eight categories listed in Categories Created from Three Class Variables . (For convenience, the categories are described in terms of their formatted values.)

Categories Created from Three Class Variables
Region Division Type

Northeast New England Residential Customers

Northeast New England Business Customers

Northeast Middle Atlantic Residential Customers

Northeast Middle Atlantic Business Customers

West Mountain Residential Customers

West Mountain Business Customers

West Pacific Residential Customers

West Pacific Business Customers

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***Categories Created from Three Class Variables***
Region	Division	Type
Northeast	New England	Residential Customers
Northeast	New England	Business Customers
Northeast	Middle Atlantic	Residential Customers
Northeast	Middle Atlantic	Business Customers
West	Mountain	Residential Customers
West	Mountain	Business Customers
West	Pacific	Residential Customers
West	Pacific	Business Customers

is the text that appears below the table if it spans multiple physical pages.

A continuation message has a style. The default style is Aftercaption. For more information about using styles, see STYLE= in the PROC TABULATE statement and Using Style Elements in PROC TABULATE .

nested variable

a variable whose values appear in the table with each value of another variable.

In Illustration of Terms Used to Discuss PROC TABULATE , Division is nested under Region.

page dimension text

is the text that appears above the table if the table has a page dimension. However, if you specify BOX=_PAGE_ in the TABLE statement, the text that would appear above the table appears in the box.

Page dimension text has a style. The default style is Beforecaption. For more information about using styles, see STYLE= in the PROC TABULATE statement and Using Style Elements in PROC TABULATE .

subtable

the group of cells that is produced by crossing a single element from each dimension of the TABLE statement when one or more dimensions contain concatenated elements.

Illustration of Terms Used to Discuss PROC TABULATE contains no subtables. For an illustration of a table that is composed of multiple subtables, see Illustration of the Four Subtables .

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