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SPSS CTABLE commandOverview

Creating tables using CTABLES command

• The Custom Tables procedure produces tables in one, two, or three dimensions and provides a great deal of flexibility for organizing and displaying the contents

• DIMENSIONS:– ROW– COLUMN– LAYER

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Creating tables using CTABLES command

• CTABLES is available in the Custom Tables option

• Square brackets that are used in the CTABLES syntax chart are required parts of the syntax and are not used to indicate optional elements

• All subcommands except /TABLE are optional

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Creating tables using CTABLES command

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CTABLES

/MRSETS COUNTDUPLICATES= {NO }

{YES}

/FORMAT EMPTY=ZERO

{BLANK }

{'chars'}

/TABLE rows BY columns BY layers

/SLABELS POSITION= {COLUMN} VISIBLE= {YES}

{ROW } {NO }

{LAYER }

/TITLES CAPTION= ['text' 'text'...]

CORNER= ['text' 'text'...]

TITLE= ['text' 'text'...]

Row, column, and layer elements each have the general form:

varname {[C]} [summary ‘label’ format...] {+} varname ...

{[S]} {>}

CTABLE

• Summary functions available for all variables:

COUNT ROWPCT.COUNT COLPCT.COUNT TABLEPCT.COUNT SUBTABLEPCT.COUNT LAYERPCT.COUNT LAYERROWPCT.COUNT LAYERCOLPCT.COUNT ROWPCT.VALIDN COLPCT.VALIDN TABLEPCT.VALIDN SUBTABLEPCT.VALIDN LAYERPCT.VALIDN LAYERROWPCT.VALIDN LAYERCOLPCT.VALIDN ROWPCT.TOTALN COLPCT.TOTALN TABLEPCT.TOTALN SUBTABLEPCT.TOTALN LAYERPCT.TOTALN LAYERROWPCT.TOTALN LAYERCOLPCT.TOTALN

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CTABLE

• Summary functions available for scale variables and for totals and subtotals of numeric variables:

MAXIMUM MEAN MEDIAN MINIMUM MISSING MODE PTILE RANGE SEMEAN STDDEV SUM TOTALN VALIDN VARIANCE ROWPCT.SUM COLPCT.SUM TABLEPCT.SUM SUBTABLEPCT.SUM LAYERPCT.SUM LAYERROWPCT.SUM LAYERCOLPCT.SUM

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CTABLE

EXAMPLES:

CTABLES /TABLE POLVIEWS [COLPCT] BY AGECAT.

CTABLES /TABLE $MLTNEWS [COUNT COLPCT] BY SEX

/SLABELS VISIBLE=NO

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CTABLE

CTABLES

/MRSETS COUNTDUPLICATES=YES

/FORMAT EMPTY=ZERO

/TABLE hh1[S] BY

stclust[S][MEAN,'Strata: clusters completed',F5.0]

+sthhfnd[S][MEAN,'Strata: households found',F5.0]

+ sthhcomp[S][MEAN,'Strata: households completed',F5.0]

+hhcomp[S] [SUM,'Cluster: households completed',F5.0]

+ sthh12[S][MEAN,'Strata: eligible women',F5.0]

+ sthh13[S][MEAN,'Strata: interviewed women',F5.0]

+hh13[S][ SUM,'Cluster: interviewed women',F5.0]

+ sthh14[S][MEAN,'Strata: eligible children',F5.0]

+ sthh15[S][MEAN,'Strata: interviewed children',F5.0]

+hh15[S][ SUM,'Cluster: interviewed children',F5.0]

/CATEGORIES VAR=ALL EMPTY=EXCLUDE MISSING=EXCLUDE

/SLABELS POSITION=COLUMN

/TITLE TITLE=

"Weight Tabulation".

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Syntax convertor

From TABLE to CTABLE: If you have command syntax files that contain TABLES syntax that you

want to convert to CTABLES syntax a simple utility program is provided to help you get started with the conversion process.

• The conversion utility program, SyntaxConverter.exe, can be found in the installation directory. It is designed to run from a command prompt. The general form of the command is:

syntaxconverter.exe [path]/inputfilename.sps [path]/outputfilename.sps

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Syntax Converter Script (Windows Only)

• On Windows, you can also run the syntax converter with the script SyntaxConverter.wwd, located in the Samples directory of the installation directory.

•  From the menus choose:•  Utilities

  Run Script...•  Navigate to the Samples directory and select

SyntaxConverter.wwd.• This will open a simple dialog box where you can specify

the names and locations of the old and new command syntax files.

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