SPSS 1: Descriptive Statistics and Coding

1. SPSS 1: Descriptive Statistics and Coding Wendiann Sethi Director of Developmental Mathematics Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Wendiann.sethi@shu.edu

2. Course description: • The first stages of using SPSS - creating a data set and then describing the data. We will be discussing data and best practices of creating a database within SPSS. Then we will cover the ways that we would describe the data through numerical and graphical representations.

3. Overview of workshop • Getting into SPSS • Data • Creating a new data set • Multiple responses • Descriptive Statistics • Analyze – Descriptive statistics • Graph

4. SPSS

5. Main screen for the Data Editor

6. Toolbar: • Data • Transform • Analyze • Graphs

7. Data view:

8. Variable view:

9. Setting up a codebook/data file Using the handout, create a new data file • Codebook • Variable view • Data view

10. Multiple responses • How to deal with questions were the participant can choose several choices. • ANALYZE>MULTIPLE RESPONSE • Define sets • Frequencies • Crosstabs • Example data: survey_sample.sav • Eth1, 2, 3 – multiple response method • News 1, 2, 3 – multiple dichotomy method

11. Changing how variables are listed • Edit>Options • General • Output • Pivot tables

12. Analyze:

13. Graphs: