Task
Data Manipulation/Working with SPSS Environment:
Switching between data view and Click the buttons at the bottom of the
variable view:
Creating a new data set or
output file:
Inserting a new variable:
Deleting Variables:
Sorting Variable
Going to a Specific
Case/Variable
Compute New Variable/Total
Scores
Data Analysis Commands:
Descriptive Statistics
Cross tabulation
Correlation
Linear Regression
Independent Samples t-Test
Paired Samples t-Test
One-way Analysis of Variance
SPSS Command
SPSS window.
Or,
Use the menus: View  Data, or View  Variable.
Go to File  New  Data, or File  New 
Output. (SPSS automatically creates a new output
file when you open the program.)
1. In Variable view  right-click the number of the
variable beneath where you want to create the
new one  then click Insert Variable.
2. In Data view  right click the number of the
variable to the right of where you want to create
the new one  then click insert variable.
3. In Variable view  select the variable beneath
where you want to create the new one  then
click the Insert Variable button on the
toolbar.
4. In Variable view  select the variable beneath
where you want to insert the new one  then go
to Edit  Insert Variable.
Right-click/Command-click the variable name in
Data view  or the variable’s number in Variable
view  select Clear from the menu.
(Please be careful when deleting variables, as this is
one of the commands that SPSS cannot undo).
In Data View, right click the name of the variable by
which you wish to sort, and then select either “Sort
Ascending” or “Sort Descending.”
Go to Edit  Go to Variable or Edit  Go to Case in
the menu, or you can click on the Go To Variable
button or the Go To Case button in the
toolbar. (Note that you can switch between them
within the Go To box.)
Go to Transform  Compute Variable. Type the new
variable (Use the commands with in the box) = Old
Variable +/-, then hit OK.
There are two days to it.
1. Go to analyse  Descriptive Statistics 
Frequencies  Hit the Statistics Button  Select
the Statistics that you want.
2. Go to analyse  Descriptive Statistics 
Descriptive  Choose the Variable  Select the
Options and then continue  OK.
Go to Analyze  Descriptive Statistics Cross tabs.
Go to Analyse  Correlate  Bivariate
Go to Analyse  Regression  Linear
Go to Analyze  Compare Means  Independent
Samples t-Test.
Go to Analyze  Compare Means  Paired Samples
t-Test.
Go to Analyze  Compare Means  One-way
(ANOVA) ANOVA.
Two (or More) – Way ANOVA Go to Analyze  Generalised Linear Model 
Univariate.
Reliability Analysis Go to Analyse  Scale  Reliability Analysis