TABLES Subcommand (MEANS command)

TABLES specifies the table list.

• You can specify multiple TABLES subcommands on a single MEANS command (up to a maximum of 30). The slash between the subcommands is required. You can also name multiple table lists separated by slashes on one TABLES subcommand.
• The dependent variable is specified first. If the dependent variable is a string variable, MEANS produces only limited statistics (COUNT, FIRST, and LAST). The control (independent) variables follow the BY keyword and can be numeric (integer or noninteger) or string.
• Each use of the keyword BY in a table list adds a dimension to the table requested. Statistics are displayed for each dependent variable by each combination of values and the totals of the control variables across dimensions. There is a maximum of 10 BY variable lists for each TABLES subcommand.
• The order in which control variables are displayed is the same as the order in which they are specified on TABLES. The values of the first control variable defined for the table appear in the leftmost column of the table and change the most slowly in the definition of groups.
• More than one dependent variable can be specified in a table list, and more than one control variable can be specified in each dimension of a table list.