PivotTables in Excel (2007) PivotTables format and display summarized data Can highlight any range of information and determine sums, averages, counts, etc. You can easily rearrange, filter, hide and pivot the information to present alternate views To create a PivotTable, go to the INSERT tab and select PivotTable > PivotTable

PivotTables in Excel (2007) “drag and drop” Data items – what data do you want to summarize? First income Row fields – how do you want to group the data? By family size Column fields – do you need further groupings? By location

PivotTables in Excel (2007) A Pivot table displaying average first income of every family size grouped by location What if I want to change my summary measure? (double-click)

PivotTables in Excel (2007) If you show counts, you have made a contingency table Can calculate relative frequencies Can also group the categories by a right-click on the row or column field