Title: How to calculate Chi Square in SPSS
Course: UGQuants (SSPS) > Section: Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables

How to calculate Chi Square in SPSS

You have a few options if you want to calculate chi square in SPSS. If you want to see the expected counts in table cells, you can ask SPSS to do this. This would display the number of cases we would expect in each cell if there were no relationship between the two variables.

To calculate chi square in SPSS go to:

Analyze > Descriptive Statistics > Crosstabs > Statistics > Chi Square

To calculate the expected counts and residuals:

Analyze > Descriptive Statistics > Crosstabs > Cells

Select ‘expected’ as well as ‘observed’.

To the right you will also see a box to calculate the unstandardized residuals.

There is a video on how to obtain measures of association at the end of this module.