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The DESCRIPT procedure produces descriptive statistics for analysis variables, including means, totals, percentages, geometric means, medians and other quantiles, and their standard errors for sample surveys and other clustered data applications. The analysis variables can be continuous or categorical.
DESCRIPT computes standardized means according to the method of direct standardization. The standardizing weights are assumed to be known.
Within one call to DESCRIPT, all analysis variables must be either continuous or categorical. The analysis of both continuous and categorical variables requires separate calls to the DESCRIPT procedure.
For continuous analysis variables, you can request estimates of totals, means, proportions, geometric means, and quantiles.
For categorical variables, you can request estimates of totals, percentages, and their standard errors.
You can request design effects for means, totals, and percentages. Design effects are not available for contrast statistics, standardized estimates, or post-stratified estimates.
DESCRIPT is primarily for the descriptive analysis of continuous (and sometimes discrete) variables, while CROSSTAB is primarily for descriptive analyses of categorical variables.
Procedure Enhancements:
Analysis of multiply imputed data has been implemented to produce all estimates, variances and tests of hypothesis, except those in the HISTOGRAM and PERCENTILE groups.
The CLASS statement is available in DESCRIPT.
Estimates of confidence limits for means, totals and percents are now produced by default in the TABLECELL group