Topic 6: A – Two-Way (Contingency) Tables

Published: January 27th, 2015

Category: Learning Statistical Software, SPSS Info and Tutorials

CO-7: Use statistical software to analyze public health data.

Video (7:57)

The following video illustrates exploratory data analysis in Case CC where we are investigating the association between two categorical variables using two-way tables (contingency tables). In SPSS we will use CROSSTABS. We illustrate adding row, column, and overall percentages to the default table output and point out a few options which will be needed later in the course. The following files are associated with this video.

  • SPSS OUTPUT CREATED:
  • Menus and Steps Used:
    • Double-click on the SPSS dataset (STEP3) to open SPSS with that data loaded
    • ANALYZE – DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS – CROSSTABS
      • Drag categorical variables into the row and column areas
      • Select any additional conditional percentages in the CELLS options by choose row percentages or column percentages (or both)
      • Click OK
    • Save SPSS output by going to the output and File – Save or by closing SPSS and following the prompts

This document is linked from our main SPSS page under Software.