Question

I have some PROC REPORT code that generates a report with 2 levels of grouping, but the RBREAK always just summarizes for everything. I get something like this for example:

    Row1: Type A  Before  100 200 300  
    Row2:         After   400 500 600   
    Row3: Type B  Before  100 200 300  
    Row4:         After   400 500 600  
    Row5: Total           700 800 900

Is there any way to get PROC REPORT to summarize with that second level grouping intact? I have 140,000+ observations, and right now I’m duplicating every observation and setting the first level grouping variable to one constant value to get a manufactured total row with the second level grouping included:

    Row1: Type A  Before  100 200 300  
    Row2:         After   400 500 600   
    Row3: Type B  Before  100 200 300  
    Row4:         After   400 500 600  
    Row5: Total   Before  700 800 900
    Row6:         After   701 801 901

Or even if PROC REPORT can’t do anything automatically, is there a better way to get the total at the bottom? I wish I could use multi-label formats…but they don’t work in PROC REPORT as far as I know.

Answer 1

This is really easy to do with proc tabulate:

/* test data */
data one;
  do type = "A", "B";
    do time = "Before", "After";
       drop AfterPremium;
       AfterPremium = 300 * (time="After");
       v1 = 100 + AfterPremium;
       v2 = 200 + AfterPremium;
       v3 = 300 + AfterPremium;
       output;
    end;
  end;
run;

proc tabulate data=one order=data formchar="|-+++++++++";
  class type time;
  var v1-v3;
  tables (type all="All Types")*time, (v1 v2 v3)*sum;
run;
/* on log
+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+
|                      |     v1     |     v2     |     v3     |
|                      +------------+------------+------------+
|                      |    Sum     |    Sum     |    Sum     |
+----------+-----------+------------+------------+------------+
|type      |time       |            |            |            |
+----------+-----------+            |            |            |
|A         |Before     |      100.00|      200.00|      300.00|
|          +-----------+------------+------------+------------+
|          |After      |      400.00|      500.00|      600.00|
+----------+-----------+------------+------------+------------+
|B         |Before     |      100.00|      200.00|      300.00|
|          +-----------+------------+------------+------------+
|          |After      |      400.00|      500.00|      600.00|
+----------+-----------+------------+------------+------------+
|All Types |Before     |      200.00|      400.00|      600.00|
|          +-----------+------------+------------+------------+
|          |After      |      800.00|     1000.00|     1200.00|
+----------+-----------+------------+------------+------------+
*/