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A chart’s Metric chooses what its bars represent. Statistics adds a table beneath those bars. Use them separately: a chart of answer percentages can carry its mean below it, while a chart of means draws the mean itself.

Choose the metric

Open a chart in Charts, select its question, and use Metric below it. The available choices depend on the answer structure and scores. A categorical mean reads the options’ numeric scores, or the supported numeric prefixes of scale labels. Inspect these scores before interpreting a mean. Use question settings to review recodes.

Add the statistics table

Open Statistics and tick the required summaries. A standalone chart starts with no statistics selected. The table follows the chart’s base, filters, weighting and groups, and appears in its Excel download and copied data. Mean comparisons can carry significance letters; check the statistical rules before using them. For a question in an analysis plan, the split’s statistics override the plan’s choices. Without an override, the plan’s statistics appear beneath its chart and in its table. A request for a statistic alone can create a chart of that measure.

Compare several questions

Use + Add question to add compatible questions to the same chart. With answer distributions, their answers appear side by side; with a statistical metric, each question supplies that measure. For example, compare a scored purchase-intent question asked at several prices. The picker excludes questions that cannot supply the current metric. Changing the metric can remove incompatible questions and statistics. Review the selection again before saving. A percentage on one answer needs that answer to remain shown in each question; a net must exist in each question’s own answer edits.

Verify the result

Check the heading names the selected measure, inspect the base for every group or item, and compare the summary with the underlying answers. A mean is not a percentage. Review counts and weighted bases separately from percentages, then save and reopen the chart.