Graphical Representations of Crosstabulations

For analytic purposes, the individual rows or columns of a table can be represented as column graphs. However, often it is useful to visualize the entire table in a single graph.

There are several ways to do this via the Crosstabulation Tables option (available when you select Tables and banners from the Basic Statistics and Tables Startup Panel). A two-way table can be visualized in a 3-dimensional histogram; alternatively, a categorized histogram can be produced, where one variable is represented by individual histograms which are drawn at each level (category) of the other variable in the crosstabulation.

The advantage of the 3D histogram is that it produces an integrated picture of the entire table; the advantage of the categorized graph is that it allows us to precisely evaluate specific frequencies in each cell of the table.