SPSS Overview
The opening screen
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The SPSS windows
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Obtain the data
• Download the Demo File from the data folder
in the course Blackboard site
• Save it on the desk top
• Open the saved file with SPSS
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Drop down
menus
Data Editor
Variable
descriptions
Action
buttons
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Data Editor
Action
buttons
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Drop down
menus
SPSS Viewer
Action
buttons
Navigation
window
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SPSS Viewer – export results
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SPSS Viewer – export results
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Drop down
menus
Navigation
window
Syntax Editor
Action
buttons
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HELP!
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Customizing SPSS
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DATA MANAGEMENT WITH SPSS
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Data management with SPSS
• Read an existing data set
– Action buttons: Open data document button
– Menu: File → Open → Data
• Entering data
– Menu: File → New → Data
• Select a subset of the data
– Action buttons: Select cases button
– Menu: File → Data → Select cases
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Select all the data for the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA
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Close the original data set once the subset has been created.
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Additional hints on data management
• Defining variable labels
– VARIABLE LABELS varname ‘variable label’.
• Define variable level of measurement
– VARIABLE LEVEL varname (NOMINAL).
• Define values for code-set
– VALUE LABELS varname 1 ‘label1’ 2 ‘label2’ ...
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Merging datasets
• Add new variables or add new cases
• Both datasets must be open at the same time
• Select one dataset to be the “master”
– The second dataset will be the source of the new
cases or new variables
• BOTH datasets must have the same unique
case (or record) identifier.
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How to add a variable
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UNIVARIATE STATISTICS
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Measures of central tendency
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Menu: Analyze → Descriptive Statistics → Frequencies
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Alternative method to obtain
descriptive statistics
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Statistics and chart options
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Do females have a higher after-tax
income than males?
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BI-VARIATE ANALYSIS
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Cross-tabulations
• Specify cell-level
statistics
– Row, column and total %
– Chi-square
– Other measures of
association
– Measures of correlation
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Do women travel further to get to
work?
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