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Spss Tutorial II

The document provides instructions for a SPSS tutorial asking students to: 1) Open the Cars.sav data file and save it under their own name. 2) Summarize the data by origin and year and answer questions about the output. 3) Fill in a table with summary statistics and comment on skewness and variance. 4) Recode the origin variable and sort the data. 5) Construct bar charts of origin and clustered bar charts of origin by year. 6) Close all work and leave the computer on once finished. The tutorial must be completed within 1 hour.

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Spss Tutorial II

The document provides instructions for a SPSS tutorial asking students to: 1) Open the Cars.sav data file and save it under their own name. 2) Summarize the data by origin and year and answer questions about the output. 3) Fill in a table with summary statistics and comment on skewness and variance. 4) Recode the origin variable and sort the data. 5) Construct bar charts of origin and clustered bar charts of origin by year. 6) Close all work and leave the computer on once finished. The tutorial must be completed within 1 hour.

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STIE IT&B

SPSS TUTORIAL
NAME : CLASS :

STUDENTS MUST USE SPSS TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. TIME TO FINISH THE TUTORIAL
IS ONE HOUR ONLY. PROVIDE PRINTED SOLUTIONS BY COPYING THE OUTPUT TO MS. WORD.

1. Start the tutorial by opening SPSS in your computer and existing data called Cars.sav
2. Before you start answering the questions given, save the Cars.sav into yourname.sav
3. Summarize the data into its origin and year. Show the summarized table in your output. Once
you have summarized the data, answer the following questions by looking at your output.

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN YEAR


1972 1977 1979
AMERICAN
EUROPEAN
JAPANESE
a. How many cars are made in 1981? ________________
b. How many American cars were produced in 1970, 1977, and 1981? __________
c. What cars were produced the least in 1973? ______________
4. Fill in the following table

VARIABLE MEAN MAXIMUM MINIMUM SKEWNESS STD.


DEVIATION
Miles per
Gallon
Engine
Displacement
Horse power
Vehicle
Weight
a. Comment on the skewness of horse power. _________________________
b. What is the variance of vehicle weight? ____________________
5. Recode the cars’ origin with different label, so that American cars are labeled as “A”, European
cars are “E” and Japanese cars are “J”. The new variable for this label is named “Category”. Sort
descendingly.
6. Construct a simple bar chart by the country origin
7. Construct a clustered bar chart by clustering them into its country origin and year.
8. Close all your works and leave the computer on.

GOOD LUCK 

Prepared by Ika Puspa S., BA (Hons) Page 1

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