Creating a break-down chart of your semantic scale question

This example shows how to produce a chart of the means of a grid of semantic scale questions broken down by gender. It assumes that you have created a semantic chart style as described in Editing the style of your semantic scale chart.

1. Click to display the Analysis Definition dialog box for a chart.
2. Set the style to Horizontal Bar Counts Transposed.
3. Add the semantic scale grid variables to the Analysis field. You can add the whole set in the form Q2.a to Q2.c or you can add individual questions separated by commas.
4. Set the Break field to the variable that you wish to use to break down your responses (Q4, gender in this example).
5. Check the Transpose box.
6. Set the Calculate field to Means & Significances (any of the Means options will do here).

   

7. Select the Cells tab and set the number of decimal places for the mean to 2. This makes the data comparable to previous examples.

   

8. Click [Apply] to create your chart.
9. Click the labelled axis and set the values to your semantic scale maximum code value as described in Editing the style of your semantic scale chart.

   The result is a bar chart showing the semantic scale responses broken down by gender.

   

See Also Editing the style of your semantic scale chart