Introduction to PROC FORMAT
Overview
Sometimes variable values are stored according to a code. For
example, when the PRINT procedure displays the data set
Perm.Employee, notice that the values for JobTitle are coded, and
they are not easily interpreted.
Perm.Employee Data Set
You
can display more descriptive values for these variables. Here is
how a report that contains formatted values for the variable
JobTitle might look. The predefined SAS formats cannot help
here.
Perm.Employee Data Set with Formatted Values for
JobTitle
However, ...
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