A GUIDE TO SPSS/PC+ 1ED

1. Front Matter

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2. Introducing SPSS/PC+

   • Neil Frude

   Pages 1-11

3. Collecting and Coding Data

   • Neil Frude

   Pages 12-27

4. SPSS/PC+ and the Computer

   • Neil Frude

   Pages 28-35

5. Creating a Data File

   • Neil Frude

   Pages 36-40

6. Creating a Data Definition File

   • Neil Frude

   Pages 41-55

7. Statistical Analysis I: FREQUENCIES and CROSSTABS

   • Neil Frude

   Pages 56-69

8. Statistical Analysis II: MEANS and T-TEST

   • Neil Frude

   Pages 70-79

9. Transforming Variables; Selecting and Sorting Cases

   • Neil Frude

   Pages 80-97

10. Command Files and System Files

    • Neil Frude

    Pages 98-108

11. Statistical Analysis III: CORRELATION and PLOT

    • Neil Frude

    Pages 109-119

12. Log Files and Listing Files

    • Neil Frude

    Pages 120-130

13. Statistical Analysis IV: ONEWAY and ANOVA

    • Neil Frude

    Pages 131-140

14. Statistical Analysis V: Non-parametric Statistics

    • Neil Frude

    Pages 141-159

15. Reporting Findings

    • Neil Frude

    Pages 160-170

16. Joining Files

    • Neil Frude

    Pages 171-178

17. Additional Topics

    • Neil Frude

    Pages 179-194

18. Back Matter

    Pages 195-279

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SPSS (The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a computer program which enables data from surveys and experiments to be analyzed fully and flexibly. It has facilities for the extensive manipulation and transformation of data, and includes a wide range of procedures for both simple and highly complex statistical analysis. It also provides the opportu­ nity for the researcher to produce fully labelled tables and graphs which can be easily incorporated into a final project report. Over the 20 years since it was first devised, the versatile SPSS system has become an indispensable tool for many workers in social science research (including psychology, sociology, politics, human geography, business management, etc.) and in business and government. Many of the largest and most important surveys in the past two decades have been analyzed using one or other version of the system. SPSS is regularly used by government agencies, and by many major industrial corporations, market research companies and opinion poll organizations. For many years SPSS could be run only on large (mainframe) computers of the kind found in the specialist computer installations within universities and large corporations. Advances in the speed, power and memory of microcomputers, however, have recently made it possible to produce a powerful version of SPSS for use on the desk-top machines of the IBM PC (personal computer) family.

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