ABSTRACT
A well-organised and presented table should be self-explanatory, simple and coherent and bring together a number of related facts to illustrate a single important idea, fact or finding. The purpose of a table is to present statistical data clearly and economically in a way that helps the reader to see relationships, to appreciate meaningfulness or proportions or to assess significances in the data more easily than a prose explanation would be able to do. A table is always placed after the first reference to it in the text, usually at the end of the paragraph. If it is not possible to fit the table on the same page as the reference, it is placed at the end of the first paragraph on the following page. Tables longer than page can be continued on the next page and, in this case, the table and column headings are repeated exactly on the second page.
