The text associated with each table is created at various levels of the tabulation program. The text of each specific line (for example, Single, in the first example) is generally written on the same statement that defines the characteristics a respondent must have to be included in that line.

Some text, such as the table title (for example, “Sample Table 4”, in Statistical functions), is created at ‘table level’, while some is generated at the ‘run level’ so that it applies to all the tables in the current run. In the sample tables, this is the title ‘Bread Purchase survey’.