Identifying Observations
You've learned how to remove the Obs
column altogether. As another alternative, you can use one or more
variables to replace the Obs column in the output.
Using the ID Statement
To
specify which variables should replace the Obs column, use the ID
statement. This technique is particularly useful when observations
are too long to print on one line.
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General form, ID statement:
ID variable(s);
where variable(s) specifies
one or more variables to print instead of the observation number at
the beginning of each row of the report. |
Example
To
replace the Obs column and identify observations based on an
employee's ID number and last name, you can submit the following
program.
proc print data=sales.reps; id ...
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