Creating Tables in SPSS
Tables with statistics (means, sums and many more) for metric variables are easily created with DESCRIPTIVES. For reporting such descriptives for groups of cases separately, try MEANS.
Frequency distributions and statistics (median, percentiles and more) for categorical variables are generated with FREQUENCIES. Frequencies or percentages for combinations of two or more categorical variables are created with CROSSTABS, which can also run chi-square tests.
Descriptive Statistics
SPSS CROSSTABS Command
SPSS CROSSTABS produces contingency tables: frequencies for one variable for each value of another variable separately. If assumptions are met, a chi-square test may follow to test whether an association between the variables is statistically significant. This tutorial, however, aims at quickly walking through the main options for CROSSTABS. Read More
SPSS DESCRIPTIVES Command
SPSS DESCRIPTIVES generates a single table with descriptive statistics for one or more variables. It can also add z scores to your data. Read More
SPSS FREQUENCIES Command
SPSS FREQUENCIES command can be used for much more than frequency tables; it's also the easiest way to obtain basic charts such as histograms and bar charts. On top of that, it provides us with percentiles and some other statistics. Plenty of reasons for taking a closer look at this ubiquitous SPSS command. Read More
SPSS MEANS Command
SPSS MEANS produces tables containing means and/or other statistics for different groups of cases. These groups are defined by one or more categorical variables. If assumptions are met, MEANS can be followed up by an ANOVA. Read More