Introduction to creating tables in Quantum

Components of a tabulation program, the hierarchies of Quantum, how to define run conditions, the options that are available on the a, sectbeg, flt and tab statements, the default options file and some sample tables

Creating an axis, the types of elements within an axis, how to define conditions for an element, the n count creating elements, subheadings, netting and axes within axes

col, val, fld and bit statements, filtering within an axis, and options on axis elements

Totals, averages, means, the standard deviation, standard error and error variance statements and how to create percentiles

Special considerations for when axes are used for the columns of a table

Creating tables: syntax of the tab statement, multidimensional tables, multilingual surveys, combining tables, printing more than one table per page, and suppressing percentages and statistics with small bases.

Table titles, underlining titles, printing text at the foot of a page, table and page numbers and controlling table justification

Filtering tables: general filter statements, named filters and nested filter sections

Filing and retrieving statements, symbolic parameters and grid tables

An example of a Quantum specification and the tables it produces