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3.5 Derived variables (COUNT and COMPUTE)
Set of tutorials (with fully worked examples using data from a real survey of 15 year-olds) on the use of COUNT and COMPUTE to construct scores from simple attitude scales designed to measure "attachment to the status quo" and "sexism".
3.5.1 An introduction to COUNT and COMPUTE [Page on this site]
3.5.2 Teenage Attitudes (Tutorials) [Page on this site]
[NB: As of 24 August 2011 the following tutorials have now been converted to pdf format for quicker display The screenshots are from SPSS 15 as updating them for 19 would be prohibitively time-consuming, but the syntax will work with any version from 11 onwards. The links will open the tutorials, but I had a few problems with reciprocal links I have now hopefully sorted out]
3.5.2.1 COUNT and COMPUTE - Preliminary notes
3.5.2.2 Data checks 1 - Status quo
3.5.2.3 The COUNT command 1 - Attachment to status quo
3.5.2.4 The COMPUTE command 1 - Attachment to status quo
3.5.2.5 Data checks 2 - Sexism
3.5.2.6 The COUNT command 2 - Sexism
3.5.2.7 The COMPUTE command 2 - Sexism
[There's a Florida International University tutorial using COUNT to create an index of attitudes to abortion from the GSS 2000, but it uses the GUI, not syntax, and there are no screenshots except for a final frequency count and barchart of the index. Also almost 45% of the cases are missing at the end. However the bi-modal distribution prompts one to analyse the data by test variables to explain this.]
3.5.1 An introduction to COUNT and COMPUTE [Page on this site]
3.5.2 Teenage Attitudes (Tutorials) [Page on this site]
[NB: As of 24 August 2011 the following tutorials have now been converted to pdf format for quicker display The screenshots are from SPSS 15 as updating them for 19 would be prohibitively time-consuming, but the syntax will work with any version from 11 onwards. The links will open the tutorials, but I had a few problems with reciprocal links I have now hopefully sorted out]
3.5.2.1 COUNT and COMPUTE - Preliminary notes
3.5.2.2 Data checks 1 - Status quo
3.5.2.3 The COUNT command 1 - Attachment to status quo
3.5.2.4 The COMPUTE command 1 - Attachment to status quo
3.5.2.5 Data checks 2 - Sexism
3.5.2.6 The COUNT command 2 - Sexism
3.5.2.7 The COMPUTE command 2 - Sexism
[There's a Florida International University tutorial using COUNT to create an index of attitudes to abortion from the GSS 2000, but it uses the GUI, not syntax, and there are no screenshots except for a final frequency count and barchart of the index. Also almost 45% of the cases are missing at the end. However the bi-modal distribution prompts one to analyse the data by test variables to explain this.]
