Finding the Tally of a categorical column

The Tally tool can be useful for quickly summarizing counts or percentages. Tally is found in Tables under the Stat menu. We will open one of the sample data files that come with Minitab and find the count and percentages of males and females listed in the dataset.

How to do it…

The following instructions will open the Department.MTW worksheet and then display the counts and percentages of male and female staff:

  1. Go to the File menu and select Open Worksheet….
  2. Click on the button labeled Look in Minitab Sample Data folder.
  3. Open the Department.MTW worksheet.
  4. Navigate to Stat | Tables then Tally individual Variables….
  5. Enter Gender into the Variables: section.
  6. Check the box for Percents as shown in the following screenshot. ...

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