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This document provides instructions for correlating variables and producing a correlation matrix in SPSS. It explains that the correlate command is used to calculate bivariate correlations between pairs of variables. The user selects the two variables to correlate and moves them to the variables area. The Pearson correlation is the appropriate statistic if the variables are scales. Running the correlate command produces a correlation matrix output that shows the correlation coefficient and significance value for each pair of variables.

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CorrelationHowTo PDF

This document provides instructions for correlating variables and producing a correlation matrix in SPSS. It explains that the correlate command is used to calculate bivariate correlations between pairs of variables. The user selects the two variables to correlate and moves them to the variables area. The Pearson correlation is the appropriate statistic if the variables are scales. Running the correlate command produces a correlation matrix output that shows the correlation coefficient and significance value for each pair of variables.

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Correlations in SPSS

In this example, we have correlated groupsin other words, parent score and child
score are a pair for the first person in each of the two rows.
To get a correlation coefficient, use the correlate command (again, in the Analyze
menu). Because a pair of variables will be correlated, this is a bivariate correlation. (If
you were to produce many correlations at once a correlation matrix you would still be
looking at each pair individually, so you would still use the correlate/bivariate
command).
This window appears:

Select these two variables and


then use the arrow to move them
both over to the variables area.

Were assuming these variables are


I/R-level (i.e., scales), so the
Pearson correlation is the correct one.

If you had many variables and wanted to produce a correlation matrix showing how each
of them is related to each of the others, you would just move all of them to the right hand
column in this same dialog window.

Hit the Options key to go on:

Lets get means and standard


deviations for these variables.
Hit Continue, and then OK to see the output:

Correlations

Parent's Score on Child's Score on

Anxiety Measure Anxiety Measure

Parent's Score on Anxiety Measure Pearson Correlation 1 .756*

Sig. (2-tailed) .011

N 10 10

Child's Score on Anxiety Measure Pearson Correlation .756* 1

Sig. (2-tailed) .011 This is the correlation between


N 10
parent10and child scores
*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).

and this is the same


correlation.

This p-value tells you whether


the correlation right above it is
statistically significant or not.

This output is called a correlation matrix. A correlation matrix has a list of all the
variables across the top, and the same list down the side. The diagonal is always all 1s,
because thats the correlation between each variable and itself.

A correlation matrix with more variables included would just have more rows and
columns. You can either read across (row name correlated with column name) or down
(column name correlated with row name) and get the same answer.

Paul F. Cook, University of Colorado Denver, Center for Nursing Research


Updated 1/10 with SPSS (PASW) version 18

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