SPSS Flashcards
What does SPSS stand for
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
What is it used for
To perform calculations and visualisations based on data sets
The data file
Where SPSS stores the data
The output file
Where SPSS stores the answers to your calculations and the visualisations you created
Variable view
In this window, you can insert, consult and store information about your variables. e.g. what they are called, what type of variable it is etc.
Data view
In this window, you can insert, consult and store the exact values for each of the variables
“Name” column
Insert a short informative name
“Label” column
Insert a longer more detailed description
String
Values consist of words or a piece of text
Numeric
Values consist of numbers
2 ways it must be saved as
Data file - .sav
Output file - .spv
