Tabulation

TABULATION

IT IS THE PROCESS OF SUMMARISING RAW DATA AND DISPLAYING AT THE SAME INTO STASTSTICAL TABLES.

IT MEANS ORDERLY ARRANGEMENT OF DATA INTO COLOUMNS AND ROWS

IT HELPS FOR FURTHUR COMPUTATIONSIT PROVIDES A BASIS FOR VARIOUS STATISTICAL COMPUTATIONSIT CONSERVES SPACE AND REDUCES EXPLONATORY AND DISCRIPTIVE STATEMENT TO A MINIMUM

ONE WAY TABLEONE WAY FREQUENCY TABLE REPRESENTS THE DISTRIBUTION OF CASES ON ONLY A SINGLE DIMENSION OR VARIABLE

GENDER NO.OF RESPONDENTS

PERCENT TO TOTAL

MALEFEMALE

11684

5842

TOTALL200 100

TWO WAY TABLE

DISTRIBUTION IN TERMS OF TWO OR MORE VARIABLES AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO VARIABLE ARE SHOWN IN TWO WAY TABLE.

EG.

Category membersExtend of participation

Low.no.of respondents

% medium % high % total

Ordinarycommittee

654

41.910.3

8333

56.884.8 2

21.31.3

15539

PRINCIPLES OF TABLE CONSTRUCTION

EVERY TABLE SHOULD HAVE A TITLE

THE CAPTION SHOULD BE CLEAR

FOOT NOTES IS OPTIONAL

IF THE DATA ARE COLLECTED THROUGH DIFFERENT METHOD ,MUST BE SHOWN THERE

DRAW LINE FOR SEPERATION.

COLOUMN MAY BE NUMBERED TO FECILITATE MORE REFERENCES

ALL COLOUMN FIGURE SHOULD ALIGN PROPERLY

TOTAL OF ROW SHOULD BE PLACED AT THE EXTREME RIGHT AND COLOUMN AT THE BOTTOM

ABBREVIATIONS SHOULD BE AVOIDED

MISCELLIANEOUS AND EXCEMPTIONAL ITEM SHOULD PLACE AT BOTTOM

LARGER NUMBER OF ITEM IS LISTED VERTICALLY

THE TABLE MADE AS LOGICAL,CLEAR.ACCURATE AND SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE

THE ARRANGEMENT OF CATEGORIES IN A TABLE MAY BE CHRONOGICAL ,GEOGRAPHICAL,OR ACCORDING TO MAGNITUDE

IN ORDER TO EMPHASIS THE RELATIVES IMPORTANCES OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES ,DIFFERENT KINDS OF TYPE ,SPACING AND IDENTIFICATION IS USED

COMPONENTS OF TABLE

•TABLE NUMBER• TABLE NUMBER SHOULD BE ASSIGNED TO A TABLE FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSE

•TITLETHE TITLE OF TABLE NARRATES ABOUT

THE CONTENT OF TABLE

•CAPTIONS OR COLOUMN HEADINGS

AT THE TOP OF EACH COLOUMN IN A TABLE A COLOUMN DESIGNATION IS GIVEN TO EXPLAIN FIGURES OF THE COLOUMN . THIS IS CALLED CAPTIONS OR COLOUMN HEADINGS

•STUBS OR ROW HEADINGS

DESIGNATIONS OF THE ROWS IS CALLED STUBS

•BODY OF THE TABLE

BODY OF THE TABLE IS THE MAIN PART AND IT CONTAINS ACTUAL DATA.

•UNIT OF THE MEASURMENT

UNIT OF THE MEASURMENT USING IN THE TABLE SHOULD BE CLEARLY STATED ALONG WITH THE TABLE. IF DIFFERENT MEASUREMENT ARE USING FOR ROW AND COLOUMNS ,THESE UNITS MUST BE STATED ALONG WITH STUBS OR CAPTIONS

•SOURCE

SOURCE IS STATED AT BOTTOM OF THE TABLE

•NOTE

IT IS LAST PART .IT EXPLAINS THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE DATA .IT COME ONLY WHEN CONTENT OF THE TABLE IS NOT SELF EXPLANATORY

Table 4.5 population of India according to workers and non workers by gender and locations

locations

gender Non workers

total

MaleFemaleTotal

17623

358

201131

182543

383674

Urban MaleFemaleTotal

718

101

819

71219.

151328

all MaleFemaleTotal

24731

459

281240

253762

5349102

Rural

Row headings /stubs

Columns headings/captionsUnits

(crore)

Body of table

Source:census of india2001

source

Note;figures are rounded to nearest number

note

PROBLEMS OF PROCESSING

DON’T KNOW RESPONSES

PROBLEMS ASSOSIATED WITH USE OF PERCENTAGES

TWO OR MORE PERCNTAGES MUST NOT BE AVERAGED UNLESS EACH IS WEIGHTED THE GROUP SIZE FROM WHICH IT HAS BEEN DERIVED

USE OF LARGE PERCENTAGES SHOULD BE AVOIDED

CONCLUSION……

TABULATION MEANS ARRANGEMENT OF DATA INTO TABLES.TABULATION HELPS IN COMPARISIONIT IS THE BASE FOR FURTHUR ANALYSIS.IT CONSERVES SPACE AND REDUCES EXPLONATORYAND DISCRIPTIVE STATEMENT INTO MINIMUM

REFERENCES

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY –KRISHNASWAMIRESEARCH METHODOLOGY-KOTHARI