Data Tabulation

The collected data is usually held in schedules and questionnaires. But that is not in an easy assimilable form. The answers will need some analysis if their salient points are to be brought out. As the rule says, the first step in the analysis is to classify and tabulate the information collected, or, if the published statistics have been employed, rearrange these into the new groups and tabulate the new rearrangement. In case of several investigations, the classification and the tabulation may give such a clear picture of the significance of the material that no further analysis is needed. In other cases these processes, may materially assist the analysis, are not the sufficient presentation of facts. They are however, very important whether they have been carefully drawn  and the answers may be both complete & accurate, but until all these answers are all brought altogether into the class to which that they belong and the entire  information displayed in a tabular form, no one will be a good deal wiser as to the contents of the replies.

Although the tabulation and phase classification has been used, classification is, in effect, only the first step in tabulation, for, in general, items having common specifications must be brought together before the data can be displayed in tabular form.

Some of the main topics of data Tabulation are:

1. Frequency distributions constructions

2. Consistency of data

3. Drafting questionnaire

4. Discrete frequency distribution

5. Continuous frequency distribution

6. Tabulation rules

7. Table parts

8. Quantitative classification

9. Relative frequency distribution

10. Statistical classifications types

11. Tables types