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Basic SPSS
Basic SPSS
Basic SPSS
• Outcomes
• Familiar with SPSS Software and Data Entry
• Specific Outcomes
• Able to enter the data in the correct way into SPSS data editor
• Able to do the basic data editing
• Able to do the basic data analysis
WHAT IS STATISTICS
• Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of
data. It also serve as:
• A tool in decision making:
Research objectives
Research hypotheses
• Statistics as a process to: Collect
Analyze Make
Informed
DATA Decisions
Present
interpret
WHAT IS SPSS
1) Data Editor – is where you create variables, enter data, and carry out statistical
functions.
There are two tabs in the data editor
1. Data View
• Rows - represents individual cases e.g. age, gender, level of education and etc.
• Columns – represents the particular variable in your data file
2. Variable View - use to create and define various characteristics of variables
• Rows - represents individual variables
• Columns – represents the specific characteristics of those variable
THE TWO MAIN WINDOWS IN SPSS
• Output Viewer – the second major window. This simple show the result of any analysis in
the SPSS including charts, tables.
1. Left side – contains an outline and menu which gives you a full lists of all the analysis that
you performed. You can use this side to navigate your output
2. Right side – are the results of the analysis which can includes tables, chart and graphs
DATA ENTRY AND CODING
• Before you can enter the information from your questionnaire, interviews
or experiment into SPSS it is necessary to prepare a ‘codebook’
• This is a summary of the instructions you will use to convert the
information obtained from each subject or case into a format that SPSS
can understand.
• Preparing the codebook involves deciding (and documenting) how you will
go about:
• • defining and labelling each of the variables; and
• • assigning numbers to each of the possible responses
DATA ENTRY AND CODING