SPSS Step-by-Step Tutorial: Part 1

SPSS Step-by-Step
Tutorial: Part 1
For SPSS Version 11.5© DataStep Development 2004Table of Contents
SPSS Step-by-Step 51
Introduction 5
Installing the Data 6
Installing files from the Internet 6
Installing files fr diskette 6
Introducing the interface 6
The data view 7
The variable view 7
The output view 7
The draft view 10
The syntax view 10
What the heck is a crosstab? 12
2 Entering and modifying
data 13
Creating the data definitions: the variable view 13
Variable types 13
SPSS Step-by-Step 3Variable names and labels 15
Missing values 15
Non-numeric numbers, or when is a number not a
number? 15
Binary variables 15
Creating a new data set 16
Getting help in creating data sets and defining
variables 22
Creating primary reference lists 24
Frequencies 24
Descriptive statistics: descriptives (univariate) 25
Recodes and Transformations 26
Backup the original file 26
Recoding existing variables 27
Recode income data 27
Recoding variables revisited 37
The one exception in recoding variables 37
The other exception 37
3 Charting your data 39
Using the automated chart function 40
Using the Interactive Chart function 42
Creating a chart from scratch 45
4 SPSS Step-by-Step1 SPSS Step-by-Step
Introduction
SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) has now been in development for
more than thirty years. Originally developed as a programming language for con-
ducting statistical analysis, it has grown into a complex and powerful application
with now uses both a ...