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DRAWING POPULATION PYRAMIDS IN EXCEL

Age
Range Total Males Females
0-4 3486469 1786036 1700433
5_9 3738160 1914865 1823295
10 _ 14 3880609 1987690 1892919 Data source is
15 - 19 3663899 1870622 1793277 http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/po
20 - 24 3546151 1765417 1780734 p2001/united_kingdom.asp
25 - 29 3867115 1895543 1971572
30 - 34 4493585 2199874 2293711
35 - 39 4625810 2277799 2348011
40 - 44 4151580 2056630 2094950
45 - 49 3735964 1851464 1884500
50 - 54 4040437 2003224 2037213
55 - 59 3338861 1651417 1687444
60 - 64 2879948 1409676 1470272
65 - 69 2596843 1241382 1355461
70 - 74 2339231 1059151 1280080
75 - 79 1966929 817711 1149218
80 - 84 1313547 482697 830850
85 - 89 752787 226833 525954
90 and
over 371269 83202 288067
Totals 58789194 28581233 30207961

Age Range % males % females


0_4 -6.2 5.6
5_9 -6.7 6.0 Data has been converted to
10 _ 14 -7 6.3 % values
15 _ 19 -6.5 5.9
Males have been changed to
2 0_ 24 -6.2 5.9
negative values
25 _ 29 -6.6 6.5
30 _ 34 -7.7 7.6 Annoyingly, Excel tries to
35 _ 39 -8 7.8 convert some figures to
40 _ 44 -7.2 6.9 dates, hence I have added a
45 _ 49 -6.5 6.2 shift dash to separate the
50 _ 54 -7 6.7 figures.
55 _ 59 -5.8 5.6
60 _ 64 -4.9 4.9
65 _ 69 -4.3 4.5
70 _ 74 -3.7 4.2
75 _ 79 -2.9 3.8
80 _ 84 -1.7 2.8
85 _ 89 -0.8 1.7
90 and over -0.3 1.0
Dbl. click on the vertical axis
(avoid a data point) to bring
up the Format Axis dialogue
box. Choose the "patterns"
tab and set major and minor
tick marks to none and the
tick mark labels to low.

Dbl. click on any data point


and in the Format data point
box choose the "options" tab
and set the overlap to 100
and gap width to 0

R.click on the horizontal axis an


choose "Format Axis" Under the
number tab choose custom and
replace the word 'general' with
the expression 0;0 to get rid of
R.click on the horizontal axis an
choose "Format Axis" Under the
number tab choose custom and
replace the word 'general' with
the expression 0;0 to get rid of
the negative signs.

In the finished graph I have


R.clicked on the data as well as
the background and the
gridlines to change the colour
properties. I have also reduced
the font size by clicking on
each label in turn.

Clicking on the vertical axis and


selecting the Format Axis box
and the scale tab has allowed
me to change the number of
categories between tick marks
from 2 to 1. For the horizontal
axis I have changed the major
units to 2.
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