Introduction to Creating Detail and Summary Reports with the REPORT Procedure

Purpose

SAS provides a variety of report writing tools that produce detail and summary reports. The reports enable you to communicate information about your data in an organized, concise manner. The REPORT procedure enables you to create detail and summary reports in a single report writing tool.
In this section, you learn how to use PROC REPORT to do the following:
  • produce simple detail reports
  • produce simple summary reports
  • produce enhanced reports by adding additional statements that order and group observations, sum columns, and compute overall totals
  • customize the appearance of reports by adding column spacing, column labels, line separators, ...

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