Higher dimensions

• Tables can have any number of dimensions, though they get harder to read and format.
• This table has four dimensions: status at age 25, status at age 35, cohort and sex:

  General status, age 25 by age 35, by cohort and sex
  State	State at 35
  at 25	Men								Women
  	1		2		3		4		5		Total			1		2		3		4		5		Total
  Cohort 1
  1	15		2		0		0		0		17			14		2		0		0		18		34
  2	6		128		1		0		15		150			3		83		1		1		89		177
  3	1		0		42		0		2		45			0		0		23		0		35		58
  4	0		2		1		0		0		3			0		0		0		2		2		4
  5	14		53		14		0		2		83			1		30		9		0		194		234
  Total	36		185		58		0		19		298			18		115		33		3		338		507
  Cohort 2
  1	41		2		0		0		0		43			24		0		1		0		20		45
  2	14		285		0		1		3		303			3		132		0		2		98		235
  3	1		0		58		0		1		60			0		2		27		0		14		43
  4	0		1		1		1		0		3			0		0		0		4		0		4
  5	20		43		8		0		6		77			9		70		14		0		180		273
  Total	76		331		67		2		10		486			36		204		42		6		312		600
  Cohort 3
  1	91		5		1		0		1		98			34		4		1		0		24		63
  2	15		346		1		1		3		366			7		109		2		2		82		202
  3	2		1		34		0		0		37			4		3		12		0		20		39
  4	0		1		0		0		0		1			0		0		0		1		0		1
  5	8		7		2		0		5		22			22		103		13		0		154		292
  Total	116		360		38		1		9		524			67		219		28		3		280		597
  Cohort 4
  1	176		8		1		0		4		189			78		5		0		1		24		108
  2	33		434		3		13		4		487			14		204		0		3		101		322
  3	2		4		33		6		0		45			4		5		6		0		15		30
  4	0		4		1		3		0		8			2		2		1		5		0		10
  5	8		1		0		0		7		16			27		187		15		2		171		402
  Total	219		451		38		22		15		745			125		403		22		11		311		872
  Cohort 5
  1	184		15		0		9		4		212			92		15		0		2		34		143
  2	61		380		5		41		14		501			32		215		3		0		96		346
  3	6		10		12		7		2		37			7		7		8		0		20		42
  4	2		9		0		12		5		28			2		4		0		2		1		9
  5	11		5		0		2		7		25			36		155		8		4		147		350
  Total	264		419		17		71		32		803			169		396		19		8		298		890
  Grand total	711		1,746		218		96		85		2,856			415		1,337		144		31		1,539		3,466

  
  

• It summarises 6,322 cases in a table with 500 cells.

• It arranges the status-at-25/status-at-35 subtables line cells in a cohort by sex table.

• Careful inspection reveals a lot of structure, but the four-way relationship is too complex to grasp by simple examination.