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SPSS

SPSS. S tatistical P ackage for S ocial S ciences Selecting Cases Department of Psychology California State University Northridge www.csun.edu / plunk. Selecting Cases in SPSS.

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  1. SPSS Statistical Package for Social Sciences Selecting Cases Department of Psychology California State University Northridge www.csun.edu/plunk

  2. Selecting Cases in SPSS A researcher may want to only include certain data in an analyses (e.g., only female participants), and exclude other data (e.g., male participants) Go to “Data” and then “Select Cases”

  3. Selecting Cases in SPSS Click where it says “If condition is satisfied”, and then “If…”.

  4. Selecting Cases in SPSS In this example, the researcher is going to limit the data to just women (coded as “1” in the data). Move “gender” into the box, and then type “= 1” (or just type “gender = 1”) Click “Continue”

  5. Selecting Cases in SPSS This window provides three options for the output. In the last option, it just deletes the unselected cases. In this example, used thedefault “Filter outunselected cases” Click “OK”

  6. Selecting Cases in SPSS As shown in the screen shot of the data, missing data and “males” are now selected out (notice the dash through the cases), while “female” is still included in the data. Any analyses will onlyinclude “female”participants unless theresearcher goes back tothe window and selects“all cases”

  7. Selecting Cases in SPSS Click “all cases” and “OK” and all the cases will be selected again.

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