Population pyramid charts
Population pyramid charts (also known as "age-sex pyramids") are commonly used to present
and analyze population information based on age and gender.
Creating a simple Population pyramid chart
- In the Chart Type section, click the Population
pyramid icon.
The canvas updates to display a Population pyramid chart template.
- Select a Y-axis variable from the drop-down list.
- Select a Split by variable from the drop-down list.
- Click the Save visualization in the project control. Select Create a new asset or Append to existing asset. Provide a Visualization asset name, an optional description, and a chart name.
- Click Apply to save the visualization to the project. The new visualization asset is now available on the Assets tab.
Options
- Y-axis
- Lists variables that are available for the chart's Y-axis.
- Split by
- Select a categorical variable that creates a table of charts, with a cell for each category in the Split by variable. Like grouping, split by variables essentially add more dimensions to your chart by displaying information for each variable category.
- Bin width
- The slider controls the size of the interval that is used to split the data into groups.
- Show distribution curve
- When enabled, the distribution fitting curve is shown on the chart.
- Primary title
- The chart title.
- Subtitle
- The chart subtitle.
- Footnote
- The chart footnote.