SPSS A Basic Primer

By Raja Rub Nawaz

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Sample Questionnaire
QID: ________ PLEASE CIRCLE OR PROVIDE YOUR ANSWER.
SD MD N MA SA

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I would recommend this course to other students. I worked very hard in this course. My area of studies is: My gender is: Male Female

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Computer Arts Business IT

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My GPA is:

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For this class, I did: (Check all that apply) a. The reading b. The home assignments c. Extra credit

Rules for Data Coding

All data should be numeric All codes for a variable must be mutually exclusive (means only one unique code be recorded for each level of a variable) Apply same coding rules consistently to all respondents

Making a Coded Questionnaire

Var #s

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recommen workhard aos gender gpa reading homework extracrd Variable Names

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Making a Coded Questionnaire

Enter circled # as it is

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Enter # with two decimals Enter 1 if ticked, enter 0 if not ticked Enter 1 if ticked, enter 0 if not ticked Enter 1 if ticked, enter 0 if not ticked

Data Entry Basics

Columns will always carry Variables; Questions So, one column is for one variable or question in your questionnaire
QID 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 recommen workhard 4 4 2 1 2 1 2 1 5 5 1 2 3 1 5 4 4 4 2 2 1 5 1 1 aos 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 3 1 2 1 gender 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 gpa 2.54 3.07 2.41 2.91 3.53 3.47 3.17 2.47 2.18 3.08 2.59 2.42 reading homework extracrd 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1

Rows will always carry Individuals; Cases; Questionnaires; So, one row is for one person or one case or one questionnaire

We are all set for SPSS now!

Our dummy data has been entered in Excel 2007 IF we will use SPSS ver. 15, then we need to convert our Excel 2007 data file in to Excel 2003 format first. The current version of SPSS is version 18 and does not require format conversion. For convenience we will use SPSS 15 tonight.