Exercise: Premature delivery and housing tenure, 2

Question 2: Using SPSS, find out which cells have expected values less than five.

Suggested answer

We choose Analyze, Descriptive Statistics, Crosstabs. Put the variable 'Housing tenure' into Row(s): and 'Prematurity' into Column(s):. Click Cells, Expected, Continue. Click OK.

You should get the case processing summary and then the following:

Housing tenure * Prematurity Crosstabulation
Expected Count
		Prematurity		Total
		Term	Preterm
Housing tenure	Owner-occupier	837.3	61.7	899.0
	Council tenant	240.3	17.7	258.0
	Private tenant	163.0	12.0	175.0
	With parents	67.1	4.9	72.0
	Other	36.3	2.7	39.0
Total		1344.0	99.0	1443.0

We can see that the cells in question are for living with parents and premature birth and other and premature birth.

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