This menu item will be displayed on alpha fields only and will be appear on the Histogram element.

You will be shown the total, the average and the record count for this field for the current selection in addition to the percentage of that category only within the current selection.

For example:

Selecting “Percentage of Total” on the unfiltered file the following message will be displayed:

This shows the current value of the Zip Code namely 90046.

The second line shows the percentage of the current count of Zip Code 90046 in comparison to the total of Zip Code 90046 for the complete file. In this case this will 100% namely the total 1064 of 1064. Also displayed is the percentage of 90046 with respect to the total number of records in the current selection, namely 1064 of 2392 giving a percentage of 44.48%.

After applying some selection criteria, eg only 50 year olds then the following message will be displayed.

Percentage of Total after right mouse click on Zip Code 90046 will now display the following message:

Here we see that of the 298 records selected 130 are in zip code 90046.

This represents 12.22% of the total number of records in 90046 namely 130 / 1064 and 43.62% of the current selection.