From this table you would be able to see clearly that the
20-29 age group was most highly represented in your survey.
This type of frequency count is usually the first step in
any analysis of a large scale survey, and forms the base for
many other statistical techniques that you might decide to
conduct on your data (see Example 12).
However, there is a problem with missing answers in this
type of count. For example, someone might be unwilling
to let a researcher know their age, or someone else could
have accidentally missed out a question. If there are any
missing answers, a separate ‘no answer’ category needs to
be included in any frequency count table. In the final report,
some researchers overcome this problem by converting
frequency counts to percentages which are calculated
after excluding missing data. However, percentages can be
misleading if the total number of respondents is fewer
than 40.