Tables of Variables with Shared Categories (Comperimeter Tables)

Surveys often contain many questions with a common set of possible responses. You can use stacking to display these related variables in the same table, and you can display the shared response categories in the columns of the table.

To Create a Table for Multiple Variables with Shared Categories

  1. Open the Table tab of the table builder (Analyze menu, Tables, Custom Tables).
  2. Drag and drop the categorical variables from the variable list into the Rows area of the canvas. The variables should be stacked. See the topic Stacking Variables for more information.
  3. From the Category Position drop-down list, select Row labels in columns.
Table 1. Stacked variables with shared response categories in columns
Variables Category 1 Category 2 Category 3
Variable 1 12 34 56
Variable 2 56 12 34
Variable 3 34 56 12

See the topic Tables for Variables with Shared Categories for more information.