Creating a Bar Chart using SPSS

Objectives

A clustered bar chart is helpful in graphically describing (visualizing) your data; it will often be used in addition to inferential statistics (see our guide on Descriptive and Inferential Statistics). A clustered bar chart can be appropriate if you are running a two-way ANOVA.

Test Procedure in SPSS

1. Click Graphs > Chart Builder... on the top menu as shown below:
   

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2. You will be presented with the following screen:
   

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3. Under the Gallery Tab () select the Bar option and the clustered bar chart icon (top row, second from left). Drag-and-drop this icon into the Chart Preview Area (as shown below).
   

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4. You will be presented with the following dialog boxes: Chart Builder and Element Properties. As you can see, the Chart Preview Area has been populated with a template of a clustered bar chart.
   
   

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5. Transfer the independent variable "Edu_Level" into the "X-Axis?" box, the other independent variable, "Gender", into the "Cluster on X: set color" (top-right corner of the Chart Preview Area) and the dependent variable "Int_Politics" into the "Y-Axis?" box.
   
   

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