The CHART Procedure

Example 2: Producing a Percentage Bar Chart

Procedure features:

VBAR statement option:

TYPE=

Data set:

SHIRTS

This example produces a vertical bar chart. The chart statistic is the percentage for each category of the total number of shirts sold.

Program

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=60;

proc chart data=shirts;
   vbar size / type=percent;
   title 'Percentage of Total Sales for Each Shirt Size';
run;

Output

The chart shows the percentage of total sales for each shirt size. Of all the shirts sold, about 42.3 percent were medium, 34.6 were large, and 23.1 were small.

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