Basic data analysis

The basic analysis of SPSS that will be introduced in this class  Frequencies  This analysis produces frequency tables showing frequency counts and percentages of the values of individual variables.  Descriptives  This analysis shows the maximum, minimum, mean, and standard deviation of the variables  Linear regression analysis  Linear Regression estimates the coefficients of the linear equation

Frequencies  Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then click ‘Frequencies’. The sample file employee.sav is used in this demonstration

Frequencies  Click gender and put it into the variable box.  Click ‘Charts.’  Then click ‘Bar charts’ and click ‘Continue.’ Click

Frequencies  Finally Click OK in the Frequencies box. Click

Output view

Descriptives  Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then click ‘Descriptives…’  Click ‘Educational level’ and ‘Beginning Salary,’ and put it into the variable box.  Click Options Click

Descriptives  The options allows you to analyze other descriptive statistics besides the mean and Std.dev  Click ‘variance’ and ‘kurtosis’  Finally click ‘Continue’ Click

Descriptives  Finally Click OK in the Descriptives box. You will be able to see the result of the analysis.

Practice 4  Do a frequency analysis on the variable “minority”  Create pie charts for it

Descriptives  Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then click ‘frequencies…’  Click ‘minority’ and put it into the variable box.  Select pie chart under chart type.  Select frequencies and continue. Click

Answer Click

Creating charts from menu Use demo.sav file (sample folder)  Click on graph menu  Choose chart builder  Click gallery tab  click on bar  Drag the stacked bar icon onto the canvas  Select – employment category on Y-axis gender on X axis

Creating charts from menu  Use demo.sav file (from sample folder)  Click on graph menu  Choose chart builder  Click gallery tab  click on bar  Drag the stacked bar icon onto the canvas  Select variables– employment category Y-  gender X axis

Creating charts from menu  Use demo.sav file (from sample folder)  Click on graph menu  Choose chart builder  Click gallery tab  click on bar and  Drag the simple bar icon onto the canvas  Select – variable job satisfaction and right click on it to change measure to ordinal. Then drag onto X axis  Select – variable household income and drag onto y axis  See statistic change to mean from count.

Creating charts

Creating charts from menu Use employee data.sav file (from sample folder)  Click on graph menu  Choose chart builder  In choose from list select scatter/dot  Drag the simplest scatter plot diagram onto the canvas  Select – variable Beginning salary then drag onto X axis  Select – variable Current salary and drag onto y axis  Click on OK button  Here you have a simple scatter plot showing the effect of starting salary on current salary.