1. 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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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