The FREQ command calculates one-way frequency distributions. Across the top of the frequency table are the values of the variable party . The rows of the table give the number of observations taking the value and the percent of nonmissing observations taking that value. In its simplest and most common use, only two variables will be specified and one table will be created. If one wants percentages of the row total instead, specify the ROW subop.
Contingency tables are most useful when the data for each variable only takes on only a few values.
One possibility is to recode these variables into a few categories. We will label the categories low and high . 23.8 100.0 Note that there are 13 observations for which both money and inflat are zero, which means that both money growth and inflation are under seven percent. The numbers around the edges of the table are row and column marginal totals. For example, the number of low values for the variable money is given by the column total 16.