Reporting

There is an art in reporting survey results.

Surveys can provide lots of information in a vast number of tables. The data analyst needs to sift through the various tabulations that can be done and select those that provide the most valuable information. 

Then he/she needs to decide whether to present results in tabular or graphical form. Graphical presentations are useful when the author wishes to demonstrate trends, but they do not give precise information on mean values nor, when included, also their standard errors. A good report will use both methods of presentation.

Tables should be presented as simple as possible as shown here - the  table shown previously but now averaged over the two different types of homestead. 

Note that the numbers of decimal places that have been chosen are sufficient to discriminate between different values in the table. There is nothing worse than having a table with superfluous decimal places.