Frequency Tables
In frequency tables, show percentages that add up to 100% across each row, and vary between rows
Frequency tables, also called cross-tabulations, show categorical by categorical variables, where each cell is a frequency or number. However it is more useful to show percentages than absolute numbers. While one can show row and column percentages, for simplicity usually only row percentages are shown, i.e. the %s across a row add up to 100%. If the table has a topic variable, put it at the top, with its values as the column headings. This means each row is one causal variable value, e. g. if the causal variable is gender, one row will be male and one row female. If the dependent variable is performance, the columns might be Low, Medium and High. Each row then shows the % performance response distribution for the topic variable. The reader will look how this distribution changes from one row to the next, i. e. how the topic variable changes by the causal variable. Sometimes only percentages are shown, not the frequency numbers.
Tags: Well Written, Quantitative, Results
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