15.7.3 Statistics Positions and Labels

/SLABELS
    [POSITION={COLUMN _|_ ROW _|_ LAYER}]
    [VISIBLE={YES _|_ NO}]

The SLABELS subcommand controls the position and visibility of summary statistics for the TABLE subcommand that it follows.

POSITION sets the axis on which summary statistics appear. With POSITION=COLUMN, which is the default, each summary statistic appears in a column. For example:

CTABLES /TABLE=age [MEAN, MEDIAN] BY gender.

	Mean	Median	Mean	Median
	S3a. GENDER:
	Male	Female
D1. AGE: What is your age?	46	45	50	52

With POSITION=ROW, each summary statistic appears in a row, as shown below:

CTABLES /TABLE=age [MEAN, MEDIAN] BY gender /SLABELS POSITION=ROW.

		Male	Female
		S3a. GENDER:
D1. AGE: What is your age?	Mean	46	50
Median	45	52

POSITION=LAYER is also available to place each summary statistic in a separate layer.

Labels for summary statistics are shown by default. Use VISIBLE=NO to suppress them. Because unlabeled data can cause confusion, it should only be considered if the meaning of the data is evident, as in a simple case like this:

CTABLES /TABLE=ageGroup [TABLEPCT] /SLABELS VISIBLE=NO.

Age group	15 or younger	.0%
16 to 25	15.7%
26 to 35	13.8%
36 to 45	14.8%
46 to 55	16.8%
56 to 65	17.8%
66 or older	21.1%