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Pie charts are a visual representation of data that displays numerical proportions as slices of a circular graph. In order to create pie charts in SPSS, follow these steps:
1. Enter your data into the SPSS software and select the “Graphs” option from the menu bar.
2. Choose “Chart Builder” from the drop-down menu and select “Pie” as the chart type.
3. Drag the variable that you want to use to create the pie chart into the “Slice” section.
4. You can customize your chart by adding labels, adjusting the colors and styles, and selecting the desired layout.
5. Once you are satisfied with the design, click “OK” to generate the pie chart.
By following these steps, you can easily create visually appealing and informative pie charts in SPSS to effectively communicate your data.
Create Pie Charts in SPSS
A pie chart is a circular chart that uses “pie slices” to display the relative sizes of data.
This tutorial explains how to create and interpret pie charts in SPSS.
Example: Pie Chart in SPSS
Suppose we have the following dataset that shows the state of residence for 15 different people:
We can create a pie chart to visualize the frequencies of people from different states by clicking on the Analyze tab, then Descriptive Statistics, then Frequencies:
The following window will pop up:
Drag state over to the box labeled Variable(s), then click on Charts and make sure that Pie charts is selected:
Click Continue, then press OK. The following pie chart will automatically appear:
From the chart we can see that 5 people are from Indiana (blue), 3 are from Kentucky (red), and 7 are from Ohio (green). The table above the pie chart also shows these numbers in percentage forms:
- 33.3% of people are from Indiana
- 20.0% of people are from Kentucky
- 46.7% of people are from Ohio
The pie chart helps us easily see that nearly half of the people in the dataset are from Ohio, as nearly half of the entire chart is green.