Topic 4: B – Creating Bar Charts and Pie Charts

Video (3:57)

The following video illustrates exploratory data analysis for one categorical variable by creating bar charts and pie charts using GRAPHS – CHART BUILDER. The following files are associated with this video.

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• DATASET USED:
  • PULSE_STEP3.SAV

• SPSS OUTPUT CREATED:
  • Topic4BOneCatVarGraphs.SPV

• Menus and Steps Used:
  • Double-click on the SPSS dataset (STEP3) to open SPSS with that data loaded
  • For Bar Charts – Go to GRAPHS – CHART BUILDER
    • Bar Chart is the default but if it is not selected, choose it from the lower left menu
    • Double-Click or drag the first selection into the graph preview area
    • Drag a categorical variable onto the x-axis
    • Using the Element Properties, you can decide whether to display frequencies or percentages on the y-axis, click Apply to save any changes
    • Click OK
  • For Pie Charts – Go to GRAPHS – CHART BUILDER
    • Select Pie/Polar from the lower left menu
    • Double-Click or drag the pie chart into the graph preview area
    • Drag a categorical variable into the box (if you recently created a graph, it will keep your variable, you can reset using the reset button)
    • Using the Element Properties, you can decide whether to use frequencies or percentages, click Apply to save any changes
    • Click OK
  • Save SPSS output by going to yhe output and File – Save or by closing SPSS and following the prompts.

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