In 9.4 TS1M1 (SAS/STAT 13.1) or 9.4 TS1M2 (SAS/STAT 13.2), when all of the following conditions are met in PROC SURVEYMEANS:

• The PERCENTILE= , DECILES, MEDIAN, Q1, Q3, or QUARTILES option is specified
• VARMETHOD=BRR or VARMETHOD=JK
• A DOMAIN statement is specified
• The option ORDER=DATA is specified
• The input data set order and the internal order of the domain values are different

Then the domain percentile standard errors and confidence limits are incorrect.

To circumvent the problem, specify ORDER=INTERNAL.

 

If in addition to the first three qualifications above, a domain variable is formatted, PROC SURVEYMEANS issues:

To circumvent the problem, omit the format and specify ORDER=INTERNAL.

 

In 9.4 TS1M3 (SAS/STAT 14.1), 9.4 TS1M4 (SAS/STAT 14.2), or 9.4 TS1M5 (SAS/STAT 14.3), under the following conditions in PROC SURVEYMEANS:

• The PERCENTILE= , DECILES, MEDIAN, Q1, Q3, or QUARTILES option is specified
• VARMETHOD=BOOSTRAP*, VARMETHOD=BRR, or VARMETHOD=JK *The bootstrap variance estimation method is new in SAS/STAT 14.2.
• A DOMAIN statement is specified

And in addition:

• No domain variables are formatted, ORDER=DATA is specified, and
• The input data set order and the internal order of the domain values are different

Or

• A domain variable is formatted, ORDER=INTERNAL, or ORDER=DATA is specified, and
• Either of these orderings of the domain values is different from that of the formatted order of the domain values

Then the domain percentile standard errors and confidence limits are incorrect.

If no domain variables are formatted, you can circumvent the problem by specifying ORDER=INTERNAL. If a domain variable is formatted, you can circumvent the problem by specifying ORDER=FORMATTED.

In all cases where incorrect standard errors are generated, both the printed Domain Quantiles table and the ODS Output data set DomainQuantiles are affected.

Also note that the default replication variance estimates for quantiles is improved beginning SAS 9.4 TS1M3 (SAS/STAT 14.1). You can specify the BRR or JK method-option NAIVEQVAR to reproduce the results from earlier release. See KB0058139 for details.