Welcome
In this tutorial, I’m going to show how
to construct a frequency table, a bar chart,
a pie chart, and a multiple or cluster bar
chart in SPSS, using these variables: Gender,
Age, and Sport.
To obtain frequency tables for these data
Click on
Analyze > Descriptive Statistics > Frequencies
I’m going to send all 3 variables into the
variable list
Make sure Display frequency tables is selected
and click OK.
And here we have the output. No missing data
and the 3 frequency tables are listed below
here.
For pie or bar charts, go to:
Analyze > Descriptive Statistics > Frequencies
The variables are left in the Variable List
from the last run.
Suppose I don’t want a chart for Gender,
I can just move it out of the variable list.
and click on charts. Let’s choose bar chart,
click continue,
Since we already have the tables, I will uncheck
the Display frequency tables box here and
OK.
And here are the bar charts.
We can follow the same procedure to generate
pie charts.
Analyze > Descriptive Statistics > Frequencies
> Charts > Pie Chart > Continue > OK.
To add labels, double click anywhere on the
chart and click on this “Show Data Labels”
icon here.
You can see here that the Count or frequencies
is already in the displayed list.
Let’s add the Age categories and percent
to the displayed list. And click Apply.
Next close the window. And that’s the pie
chart.
To generate a multiple or cluster bar chart,
click on graphs, and let’s use Legacy Dialogs.
"Click on Bar, leave “Summaries for groups
of cases” selected, and click Define.
Suppose I want to categorize Age category
by gender, then I can drag Age Category into
category axis and define by gender.
Click Ok.
And that’s the multiple bar chart.
I can then right-click, copy, and paste in
a word document.
And that’s it.
Thanks for watching.
