- Is there a relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable?
- Changes in the distributions of the dependent variable across the categories of the independent variable (i.e. the column percentages change across the rows)
- How strong is the relationship?
- Magnitude of the differences in the percentages across the rows
- Magnitude of the measures of association
- What direction is the relationship? (ordinal level variables only)
- Patterns in the column percentages across the rows
- Sign of the measures of association
- If your data are from a sample, can we conclude that the relationship we find the in the table is the product of a real relationship in the population from which the sample was drawn (ie. can we reject the null hypothesis for the population)?
- Are there other variables that could account for the relationship you have found?
- introduce a control variable in multivariate tabular analysis