Practicing Cross-Tabulation

I’m adding this extra HW assignment to give you practice using Qualtrics’ cross-tabulation tool for data analysis. As we discussed in class, you need to correct for unbalanced survey data—and cross-tabulation is a LOT easier than working with the raw data file.

Assignment Log into Qualtrics, then click on “results” next to your section’s survey. Look for the “cross-tabulation” option, and then choose 2 questions to cross-tabulate. Typically, you’ll want to select one of the demographic measures as your column (banner) head, and one of the library questions as the row (stub). But feel free to play around!

Once you have a cross tabulation that you think is significant, you should probably convert raw numbers into percentiles: if 4 of 20 Freshmen and 1 of 5 Sophomores chew gum, it’s more meaningful to report that as 20% of both Freshmen and Sophomores, rather than 4 Freshmen and 1 Sophomore.

Use the comment space on this page to report your results, using words to express whether this data surprised you or confirmed your predictions. If you make a graph, upload the graph as a picture (.jpg or .png).