Neil Evans-Mudie wrote:

Could anybody give me any pointers how to statisically analyse the below
data matrix. Cols (1999 - 2002) are independent Years, Rows are dependent
categories (a - n).


What kind of analysis do you want to perform?

I am using Excel 2000 & data analysis tool (I have no
access to higher end stat software like spss & statview512).


R (a dialect of the S language) is free
http://www.r-project.org/

Jerry