SPSS Creating and Interpreting a Demographic Table
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cf_create_a_demographic_table.pptxHow to Create a Demographic Table
Let’s look first at what a demographic (or baseline characteristics) table looks like in healthcare journals. Look in Google Images to find other examples.
Note that this column has the variables of interest
N = number of study participants
MEAN for interval/ratio data and (standard deviation) values
These columns report the data. In this case there were two groups that were studied.
Numbers of participants and (%) for categorical data
Click on INSERT Table functions at the top of MS Word. You can then select the number of rows and columns you need for your table.
Note that the variable column also has information about how the data is reported, such as the unit of measure (such as yrs) and the statistics being used (for example, mean, SD, n, %).
