General form, basic MEANS procedure: PROC MEANS <DATA=SAS-data-set> <statistic-keyword(s)> <option(s)>; RUN; where SAS-data-set identifies the data set to process statistic-keyword(s) specifies the statistics to compute option(s) control the content, analysis, and appearance of output.

In its simplest form, PROC MEANS prints the n-count (number of non-missing values), mean, standard deviation, and minimum and maximum values of every numeric variable in a data set. proc means data=perm.survey; run;

Variable	N	Mean	Std Dev	Minimum	Maximum
Item1 Item2 Item3 Item4 Item5 Item6 Item7 Item8 Item9 Item10 Item11 Item12 Item13 Item14 Item15 Item16 Item17 Item18	4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4	3.7500000 3.0000000 4.2500000 3.5000000 3.0000000 3.7500000 3.0000000 2.7500000 3.0000000 3.2500000 3.0000000 2.7500000 2.7500000 3.0000000 3.0000000 2.5000000 3.0000000 3.2500000	1.2583057 1.6329932 0.5000000 1.2909944 1.6329932 1.2583057 1.8257419 1.5000000 1.4142136 1.2583057 1.8257419 0.5000000 1.5000000 1.4142136 1.6329932 1.9148542 1.1547005 1.2583057	2.0000000 1.0000000 4.0000000 2.0000000 1.0000000 2.0000000 1.0000000 1.0000000 2.0000000 2.0000000 1.0000000 2.0000000 1.0000000 2.0000000 1.0000000 1.0000000 2.0000000 2.0000000	5.0000000 5.0000000 5.0000000 5.0000000 5.0000000 5.0000000 5.0000000 4.0000000 5.0000000 5.0000000 5.0000000 3.0000000 4.0000000 5.0000000 5.0000000 5.0000000 4.0000000 5.0000000