There are four types of element in an axis:

These elements contain text and conditions which define the characteristics a respondent must have to be included in the element. In a simple axis each element will refer to one response to a question and will produce a row, column or table of figures telling you how many people gave that response.

These elements create nothing but text; no cells containing counts or values are created from these elements.

These are elements which contain arithmetic values rather than counts. For example, one element might tell you the number of times a product was bought rather than the number of people who bought it.

These elements contain totals, subtotals or statistical functions such as means and standard deviations.