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Graphs Pie Chart
We surveyed 714 people and we recorded in which district the interview took
place. The variable
district has the following value codes: Coding:
We want to construct a pie chart for this variable. In this example we use Graphs > Chart Builder...: The Chart Builder dialog box opens.
We have chosen Pie/Polar, dragged the graph icon to the preview field and
dragged the variable District to the "Set Color" field. The first result:Clearly this graph needs editing. A title is missing. Depending on the
context where it will be published it might need a source. Double-clicking on the chart in the SPSS output windows opens the graph in a new Chart Editor window. Editing:
Below you see the pie chart after some editing. Try and get a similar result yourself. The edited result:Or it could be like this:
Note: Copying and pasting graphs into
Word works fine most of the time, but not always. |
Last modified
30-10-2012
© Jos Seegers, 2009; English version by Gé Groenewegen. |