Re: Beginner question about correlating subsets

Posted by Bruce Weaver on Apr 25, 2014; 2:29pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Beginner-question-about-correlating-subsets-tp5725666p5725667.html

Are you asking about how to partition an overall chi-square?  If so, maybe this will help you:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21501724

deca wrote

Say I have a variable with only two values: people with education level above and below high school.

Then I have other variables lie gender, nationality, race, marital status.

Running crosstabs Chi-square tests on these only gives me the overall value for statistical significance, for example for nationality. What if I wanted to know if any specific nationality or race etc was more likely to have a HS degree or was more likely not to have one? Basically which category of a nominal variable was more likely to have a degree or not have one.

I'm sorry about the strange way my question was worded, but I suspect my problem stems at least partially from the way I'm seeing it at the moment.

Thanks!
Almir