September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
446 pages
9h 17m
English
To gauge the strength of the relationship between an interval-level variable and a nominal field, you can use the Eta statistic in Crosstabs. Interval-level fields, such as age or income, generally have many unique values, which produce a very large table. In this example, the variable age (72 different values in this dataset) and 2012 vote status (three values) will be used.
This would produce a table with 216 cells, so the table will be suppressed. Check the Eta box in the statistics dialog so the statistic gets produced. Note that by checking the Suppress tables box, the Cells and Format buttons become unavailable. You can see this happening in the following screenshot:
The syntax to produce the ...
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