Specifying Footnotes

To add footnotes to your output, you can use the FOOTNOTE statement.

General form, FOOTNOTE statement:

FOOTNOTEn 'footnote-text';

where n is a number from 1 to 10 that specifies the footnote line and footnote-text is the actual footnote to be displayed.

Be sure to match quotes enclosing the footnote text.

The PROC PRINT step below contains two FOOTNOTE statements, specified for lines 1 and 3.
proc print data=clinic.stress noobs; var resthr maxhr rechr; where tolerance='I'; footnote1 'Data from Treadmill Tests'; footnote3 '1st Quarter Admissions'; run;

Sample Output
Footnotes appear at the bottom of each page of procedure output. Notice that footnote lines are "pushed up" from the bottom. The FOOTNOTE statement with the largest number appears on the bottom line.

In SAS listing output, "skipped" footnote lines appear blank, as shown in the output below.

RestHR MaxHr RecHR

   68       171        133

   78       177   139

   70       167   122

   65       181   141

   74       152   113

   75       158   108

   78       189   138

Data from Treadmill Tests

1st Quarter Admissions

In HTML output, footnote lines appear consecutively, without extra spacing for skipped footnotes.

RestHR MaxHR RecHR

68 171 133

78 177 139

70 167 122

65 181 141

74 152 113

75 158 108

78 189 138

Data from Treadmill Tests

1st Quarter Admissions

Modifying and Canceling Footnotes

Redefining a footnote line cancels any higher-numbered footnote lines.

To cancel all previous footnotes, specify a null FOOTNOTE statement (a FOOTNOTE statement with no number or text).