ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we will demonstrate one of the most basic—and important—tools of statistical analysis: crosstabs. Tabular analysis involves presenting your ordinal/nominal-level data in a contingency table. This table groups data in matrix form and serves to calculate the critical test statistic in tabular analysis, the chi-square statistic. A contingency table is much like a bivariate frequency table as constructed in Tables 7.10 and 7.11. Rather than simply reporting the number of countries that are contained within each cell of these two tables, we have, of course, listed in Tables 7.10 and 7.11 the actual names of the countries that fall into each cell.
