SPSS

Question 1

What is SPSS?

Answer 1

• statistical package for social science
• a Windows-based program that can be used to perform data entry and analysis and to create tables and graphs
• “Spreadsheet-like software”
• capable of handling large amounts of data (survey research)

Question 2

WHAT ARE THE TWO MAIN WINDOWS?

Answer 2

(1) Variable View

(2) Data View

Question 3

what is syntax?

Answer 3

Language for spss

Spss command

Question 4

what are the functions of spss?

Answer 4

• management, organization
• transforming
• data analysis (descriptive & inferential statistics)
  (1) descriptive
• univariate, bivariate, multivariate analysis
  (2) inferential
• test of statistical significance (hypothesis testing)
• making graphs

Question 5

How do you Run frequency tables for multiple variables?

Answer 5

-Analyze → Descriptive Statistics → Frequencies

Question 6

Recode variables (re-categorizing responses)?

Answer 6

-Transform → Recode into Different Variables

Question 7

how do you Create bi-variate crosstabulation?

Answer 7

-Analyze → Descriptive Statistics → Crosstabs

Question 8

how do you Select Cases?

Answer 8

-Data → Selecting Cases