Biostatistics : Types Of Tabulation

• Tables can be classified according to their purpose and characteristics used.

Tables may be classified as follows:

1. Simple or one-way table 

2. Two way table

3. Manifold table

1. Simple or one-way table

• A simple or one-way table is the simplest table which contains data of one characteristic only.
• A simple table is easy to construct and simple to follow.
• For example, the blank table given below may be used to show the number of adults in different occupations in a locality

2. Two way table

• A table, which contains data on two characteristics, is called a two way table.
• Either stub or caption is divided into two co-ordinate parts
• For example the caption may be further divided in respect of ‘ sex’ . This subdivision is shown in two-way table, which now contains two characteristics namely, occupation and sex

3. Manifold table

• More and more complex tables can be formed by including other characteristics.
• For example, we may further classify the caption sub-headings in the above table in respect of “marital status”, “ religion” and “socio-economic status” etc. A table ,which has more than two characteristics of data is considered as a manifold table. For instance , table shown below shows three characteristics namely, occupation, sex and marital status.

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