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Introduction to SPSS

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University School of Business

Subject Name and Code: BRM


Dr Kamalpreet Kaur Paposa
Assistant Professor
INTRODUCTION TO SPSS
S •Statistical

P •Package for the

S •Social

S •Sciences
INTRODUCTION TO SPSS
• SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data
management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business
intelligence.

• Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. Versions


of the software released since 2015 have the brand name IBM SPSS
Statistics.
INTRODUCTION TO SPSS

• Package of programs

• Used for manipulating, analyzing and presenting data

• Widely used in social and behaviour science

• Graphical interface

• Used in variety of fields from market researchers to government


agencies
BIG PICTURE STEPS IN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
Formulate
Explore your Graph/Descri
Look at data Identify data Question
data be data
(Hypothesis)

Select and
Analyse your Set up Check run
data Hypothesis normality appropriate
test

State if
Present
Interpret your Find the test Determine if hypothesis is
Write result appropriate
results statistic significant accepted or
plot
rejected
SET UP ON THE BASICS
1. Defining terms

2. Working in SPSS
LETS GET STARTED WITH SPSS
• The two most important windows in SPSS
• Data Editor Window- shows the content of the current data file

• Output Viewer Window- shows the results of the analysis


DATA EDITOR WINDOW
• It’s the starting point
• The two types of views are-
• Data View- Works much like excel

• Variable View
VARIABLE VIEW
DATA EDITOR WINDOW- Data View
• The Data View is the screen you will use when entering your data
into SPSS.

• At present this view shows an empty data table in which each of the
variables (columns) is labelled ‘var’.

• Before you can type your data into this data table you must set up
the variables so they are ready to receive your data.
DATA EDITOR WINDOW- Data View
• SPSS needs to know the name of each of your variables; these names
will be inserted at the top of the columns of the data table.

• In addition, you need to give SPSS other important information about


each of your variables.
DATA EDITOR WINDOW- Data View
There are two way to enter the dataset:
• Manually (entering the data by hand)
• Loading in a file (data is saved in some form and can be opened in
SPSS)
DATA EDITOR WINDOW- Variable View
• This process of defining the variables is undertaken in the Variable
View.

• If you click on the Variable View tab you will notice that in this view
the columns are headed Name, Type, Width, Decimals etc.
DATA EDITOR WINDOW- Variable View
• In the Variable View of the data table the variables are arranged down
the side of the table and each column gives information about a
variable.

• For example, in the column headed Name we are going to provide the
name of each variable, in the Type column we are going to going to
tell SPSS what type of variable this is, and so on.
DATA EDITOR WINDOW- Variable View
• Variable View- It Allows us to name each column in the Data table and
specify what sort of values the column will contain.
• Lets try Manually first-
1. Defining variables in SPSS

2. Setting up your variables names


DATA EDITOR WINDOW- Variable View
3. Selecting variable type, width and decimal

4. Setting up of variable labels, values, missing , column, align,


measure, role.
Setting up your variables- Variable name
• The first thing we need to do is to give the variable a meaningful name.

• There should be no blank space in the variable name. You can use a _ instead

• Type the name of your first variable into the first row of the Name column.

• You should choose a variable name that makes sense to you and which you are
not likely to forget.

• Students often use the variable name ‘score’. This is not a good choice as it tells
us almost nothing about the variable. Examples of more useful variable names
might include ‘memscore’ (for participants’ scores in a memory experiment
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