Comparison to Using a BY Statement
There is another way
to create a three-dimensional table. Like many SAS procedures, PROC
TABULATE supports the BY statement. You can use this to repeat a table
for each value of the BY variable.
For example, the similar
tables can be built by using a three-dimensional TABLE statement or
by a two-dimensional TABLE statement and a BY variable.
The following code takes
the first approach. It uses a three-dimensional TABLE statement and
produces Output 6.3. Reading the TABLE statement
from right to left, it calls for columns showing the class variables
GENDER and ALL and a single row showing MEAN income, and it is repeated
for each value of CTRY.
PROC TABULATE DATA=TEMP; CLASS CTRY GENDER; VAR INCOME; TABLE CTRY, ...
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