Question

According to the Housing Mobility section of the General Social Survey, Victoria, 2006 (ABS, Catalogue Number: 4159.2.55.001), about 1494 thousand people aged 18 years or over moved in the last five years. Of these people, 758.4 thousand moved for housing reasons, 170.2 thousand moved for employment reasons, 398.6 thousand moved for family reasons and 167.2 thousand moved for other reasons.

Using excel: a. Construct a pie chart b. b. Interpret your pie chart

Answer 1

First we need to enter data in excel. Then select that entered data and go to 'Insert' menu and select 'Pie chart' You get following output:

From pie char we see that 51% of people moved for housing reasons.

27% people moved for family reasons.

11% people moved for employment reasons and remaining 11% moved for other reasons.

Hence we conclude that people moved mainly for housing reasons or their family reasons.