Survey Training Pack Session 16 – Custom Tables in SPSS

Session Content  One-way tables  Two-way tables  Three-way tables  Multiple Response Variables in tables

Example Table

One-way Table  Table showing number of percentage of households in each land classification  Land classification = variable “LowlandCode”  Analyse -> Tables -> Custom Tables

Custom Tables Dialog

Set Row dimension  Drag LowlandCode into Row dimension

Add Percentages  Choose “Summary Statistics” – then “Column N %”

Add Totals  Click “Categories & Totals”  Click checkbox for “Total”

Resulting Table  320 households in sample  Just under 22% of households are in villages with a lowland code of 1

Multiple Response  Want to find % of households with each land potential who attended each type of training  Some attended both => multiple response

Create MR Set  Need variables A2 & A5 => multiple response set  Analyse -> Tables -> Multiple response sets  “Add” to save

MR set in Custom Tables  Drag “$trainingtype” to Column dimension

Column % vs Row % Column %  Of HHs who attended PLAR training 25.3% were in villages with a lowland code of 1 Row %  Of HHs in villages with a lowland code of 1, 71.4% attended PLAR training We need Row % in this instance

Three-way table  Add “Sex of Respondent” to Custom Table  Drag to Column, below “Type of training”

Resulting Table  Gives us remaining results to complete our table

Transcribe results  Three tables in SPSS output => one table in Analysis Plan  Take care when transcribing – copy & paste where possible  Ask colleague to check results for quality control

Resulting Syntax