Obs	FirstName	LastName	JobTitle	Salary
1	Donny	Evans	112	29996.63
2	Lisa	Helms	105	18567.23
3	John	Higgins	111	25309.00
4	Amy	Larson	113	32696.78
5	Mary	Moore	112	28945.89
6	Jason	Powell	103	35099.50
7	Judy	Riley	111	25309.00
8	Neal	Ryan	112	28180.00

You can display more descriptive values for these variables. Here is how a report might look that has formatted values for the variable JobTitle. The predefined SAS formats cannot help here.

Obs	FirstName	LastName	JobTitle	Salary
1	Donny	Evans	technical writer	29996.63
2	Lisa	Helms	text processor	18567.23
3	John	Higgins	assoc. technical writer	25309.00
4	Amy	Larson	senior technical writer	32696.78
5	Mary	Moore	technical writer	28945.89
6	Jason	Powell	manager	35099.50
7	Judy	Riley	assoc. technical writer	25309.00
8	Neal	Ryan	technical writer	28180.00
9	Henry	Wilson	senior technical writer	31875.46
10	Chip	Woods	text processor	17098.71

However, you can use the FORMAT procedure to define your own formats for displaying values of variables.