This chapter focused on the capabilities of the crosstabs procedure in SPSS Statistics. Exploring relationships among categorical fields is central to many data analysis projects. Crosstabs provides both tabular results, which can be visually evaluated, and summary statistics, which assess the presence and the strength of the relationship between the measures under consideration. Categorical fields can be nominal, ordinal, or interval in terms of their measurement level, and the statistics appropriate for each of these were reviewed.
Crosstabs results are presented in the form of pivot tables and the SPSS capabilities for editing these tables was covered in this chapter. Understanding what to include in a table and how to interpret the patterns in a table, as well as the associated statistics for the table, are important topics addressed in the preceding sections. As you...
