Re: decimal positions in means output

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 03:38:10PM +0100, Frank Thomas wrote:
     Hi,
     I use Means and suddenly (?) there are no positions after the decimal point
     in the output.
     The syntax I use is basic:
     means e111_01 by country by age6  /cell mean.
     The numbers of the dependent variable e111_01 are integers
     
     The output I get looks like the following. What I need is an output with
     one or more digits: a means with no digits is useless to me.
     
     I also tried to force the format before, to no avail:
     set format  e111_01 (F2.1).
     var lev  e111_01 (scale).
     
     Any ideas appreciated.
     TIA
     ftr

Scalar values in means follow the format of the variable they're reporting.
So if you want e111_01's mean to be reported with 1 decimal place, then you
need to do something like:

FORMATS e111_01 (F8.1).

J'