The Sketch

This is a basic descriptive table designed to show mean income. It has an overall mean and a breakdown by education level. It also shows the number of observations in the data set.
Figure 4.1 Quick Sketch of Your Table Plan
Basic Descriptive Table Designed to Show Mean Income
To build this example, we will break it down into pieces and build them one at a time. Then the pieces can be put together to create the final table.
Whenever you are building a PROC TABULATE table, it is usually simpler to build it piece by piece. It is easier to see what is and is not working if you do not try to build the whole table at once. We follow these steps to create our table:
  1. Create a simple table ...

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