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    This document discusses three types of percentages that can be computed from frequencies in a crosstabulation table: total percentages which divide each frequency by the total frequency; column percentages which divide row frequencies by the frequency in the last row; and row percentages which divide column frequencies by the frequency in the right column. Each type of percentage facilitates a different comparison and the appropriate type depends on the question being examined.

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    This document discusses three types of percentages that can be computed from frequencies in a crosstabulation table: total percentages which divide each frequency by the total frequency; column percentages which divide row frequencies by the frequency in the last row; and row percentages which divide column frequencies by the frequency in the right column. Each type of percentage facilitates a different comparison and the appropriate type depends on the question being examined.

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    This document discusses three types of percentages that can be computed from frequencies in a crosstabulation table: total percentages which divide each frequency by the total frequency; column percentages which divide row frequencies by the frequency in the last row; and row percentages which divide column frequencies by the frequency in the right column. Each type of percentage facilitates a different comparison and the appropriate type depends on the question being examined.

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    Crosstabulation: Percentages

    Each frequency in the table can be converted to a


    percentage to facilitate comparisons with other data.
    In essence this is a process of standardization.

    Three types of percentages are commonly computed:

    Column Percentages
    Row Percentages
    Total Percentages

    Total Percentages

    Total percentages are computed by taking each


    of the frequencies in our table and dividing by
    fTOTAL

    Check: The bottom right percentage should equal


    100%.

    Column Percentages

    Column percentages are computed by taking


    each of the frequencies in rows of our table and
    dividing by the frequency in the last row.
    Check: The bottom row percentages should each
    be 100%.

    Row Percentages

    Row percentages are computed by taking each of


    the frequencies in columns of our table and
    dividing by the frequencies in the right column.

    Check: The right hand column percentages


    should each be 100%.

    The real question for the social scientist is - when do


    you want to look at Column %, Row % or Total %
    rather than the others?

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