Title: Some practice with frequency tables
Course: UGQuants (SSPS) > Section: Univariate Analysis

Some practice with frequency tables

Now practice reading tables by looking at these other examples of frequency tables that have been edited from the output of statistical software.

Self-rated health in the UK, 2009-10 | %
Excellent | 19
Very good | 32
Good | 28
Fair | 14
Poor | 7
Total | 50,900*
Frequency of attendance at religious services, Europe 2010 | %
At least once a week | 15.2
At least once a month | 11.1
Only on special holy days | 23.4
Less often | 18.6
Never | 31.8
Total | 52,460*
*94 cases for which data are  unavailable (missing, refused or  don’t know) have been excluded from the analysis. Source: UK  Household Longitudinal Survey  (‘Understanding Society’), 2009-10. | *346 cases for which data are  unavailable (refusal, no answer or  don’t know) have been excluded  from the analysis. Source: European  Social Survey, 2010.

Practice by using the software to produce frequency tables for these 3 variables from the European Social Survey 2008/09. Think about why the results might be useful in helping us understand our social and political environment:

- ‘polcmpl’ (How often does politics seem so complicated that you can’t really understand what is going on?)
- ‘scnsenv’ (To what extent do you agree or disagree that modern science can be relied on to solve our environmental problems?)
- ‘mbtru’ (Are you or have you ever been a member of a trade union or similar organisation?)