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This term represents the horizontal dimension of a table. Banner must be an svar or an mvar or a number.

A global banner may be set for tables with the command:

SELECT BANNER variable,

On tables following, where no banner variable is specified, the variable selected will be used.

A variable is normally specified on the first definition of a table, either explicitly or via a SELECT command. The number of columns on the table will be the length of the variable plus the total column.

If no banner is specified explicitly or implicitly for a table, only a total column is supplied.

A number n may only be used on the second and subsequent definitions of a table. It means that the nth column of the table, only, will be incremented. If n is 0, only the total is incremented; all other columns remain unchanged.

A banner may contain up to 1000 columns.

Examples of TABULATE commands:

t #1=$age*$sex,

t #2a=$area*0,

t #tot=$usage* ,