User Guide

Chapter

Creating and

Editing Charts

You can create and edit a wide variety of chart types in SPSS. In these examples, we

will create

and edit three commonly used types of charts:

 Simple bar

chart

 Pie chart

 Scatterpl

ot with groups

Chart Creation Basics

To demonstrate the basics of chart creation, we will create a bar chart of mean income

for differ

ent levels of job satisfaction. This example uses the data file demo.sav.

E From the m

enus choose:

Graphs

Bar...

In the Bar Charts dialog box, you specify what type of bar chart you want to create

and what data to use in the chart.

In this exa

mple,wewillcreateasimplechartusing groups of cases. The resulting

chart will show a bar for each group (category) in a single categorical variable.

Bars can also be based on summaries of separate variables (so that each variable

is a bar) or

values from individual cases in the data file (so that each case is a bar).

You can also create a clustered or stacked bar chart. With these charts, there are

multiple categorical variables.

E Click Simple.

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