Compare standardized pearson residuals across different chi-squared tests Is it possible to compare the standardized pearson residuals for two given cells from two different chi-squared tests? The respective variables have different numbers of factor levels.
I am not looking for an inferential test. I just want to say that cell a_xy in table A contributed more to the overall significance test for table A than cell b_xy did for the overall significance test for table B.
Is that something that can be interpreted from the standardized pearson residuals? Are they always on the same "scale" - are they actually standardized?

As has been described here (thanks to ttnphns for linking it), standardized residuals alone are not sufficient to compare across multiple tables. Rather, adjusted standardized residuals should be used as they are described by Agresti (2007). These can be outputted in SPSS. In R, these can be found as stdres in the output from chisq.test.
