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Forestry 525 Workshop On SPSS for Windows

INTRODUCTION GETTING STARTED WITH SPSS USING THE DATA EDITOR: Create a variable, variable label, and value label for “subjective social class” (Q1 of Voluntary Organization Questionnaire).

• Create a variable, variable label, and value label for “job loss due to overcutting” (Q #2 of Port

Alberni Public Survey)

• Entering data
• Variable Name
• Variable Label
• Value Label
• Saving data

DATA CLEANING SAVING DATA, LISTINGS, AND SYNTAX FILES

2 OPENING A DATA FILE You will be using two data sets: 1991 U.S. General Social Survey.sav data01.sav Port Alberni1.sav Port Alberni2.sav DATA SETS ARE STORED IN: SPSS FOR WINDOWS -- Types of Files:

• DATA (sav)
• OUTPUT (spo)
• SYNTAX (sps)

OVERVIEW OF THE MENU AND ICONS USING COMMAND FILES FROM THE MENU

• Open the “1991 U.S. General Social Survey.sav” data file.
• Changing the variable order (alphabetical versus file order), and variable listing (name versus

label).

• Frequencies

Use the frequencies procedure to examine the variable “sex”.

3 Describe the findings. Descriptives

• Use the descriptives procedure to get summary information for the variables:

“age”, “educ”,.

• Now use frequencies to get summary information on “age” and “educ”.

Correlate

• Use bivariate correlation to look at the relationship between education (educ),

father’s education (paeduc), and mother’s education (maeduc). Open the “ data01.sav” data file. Crosstabs

• Do a cross tabs of gender by position

Compare Means –> Independent Samples t-test.

• Compare income for men and women (pdollars by gender).

DESIGNATING THE OUTPUT WINDOW TRANSFORMING DATA

4 REVIEWING PREVIOUS COMMANDS CREATING DATA DICTIONARIES ONLINE COMMANDS GLOSSARY ONLINE HELP CREATING CHARTS EXPORTING CHARTS AND TABLES TO WORD OR WORDPERFECT USE EXCEL TO CREATE A DATA SET USING SYNTAX COMMAND FILES MERGING DATA FILES