1. Wendiann Sethi Director of Developmental Mathematics Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Wendiann.sethi@shu.edu

2.  The first stages of using SPSS - creating a data set and then describing the data. We will be discussing data and best practices of creating a database within SPSS. Then we will cover the ways that we would describe the data through numerical and graphical representations.

3.  Getting into SPSS  Data ◦ Creating a new data set ◦ Multiple responses  Descriptive Statistics ◦ Analyze – Descriptive statistics ◦ Graph

6.  Data  Transform  Analyze  Graphs

9. Using the handout, create a new data file  Codebook  Variable view  Data view

10.  How to deal with questions were the participant can choose several choices.  ANALYZE>MULTIPLE RESPONSE ◦ Define sets ◦ Frequencies ◦ Crosstabs  Example data: survey_sample.sav ◦ Eth1, 2, 3 – multiple response method ◦ News 1, 2, 3 – multiple dichotomy method

11.  Edit>Options ◦ General ◦ Output ◦ Pivot tables