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Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)
[Page last updated 18 April 2019]
SPSS
[NB: Here and throughout this site SPSS refers to IBM® SPSS® Statistics software]
Important notice
British Social Attitudes Survey
Data safeguarding requirements of the newly implemented European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) mean that no actual data can be uploaded to this site from the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS). Instead users must check the series list of available files and click the Access link to request downloads of individual source files direct from UKDS.
From October 2018, users wishing to download and use data from the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS) must
1: have (or open) an account at UKDS
2: be registered for use of BSAS data
3: be logged in to their UKDS account
See: Downloading British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS) data from the UK Data Service
My tutorials are still accessible, but are currently being re-written without links to SPSS saved files for the BSAS previously downloadable from this site. Hyperlinks in my tutorials to SPSS *.sav files for the BSAS, previously downloadable from this site, will cause type 404 errors. All SPSS saved files for surveys from 1990 to 2017 have been removed and links links to them have been disabled. All affected tutorials are currently being rewritten to redirect users to the appropriate page at the UK Data Service (UKDS).
The metadata of the original SPSS files has undergone various changes over the years: this means that the metadata are not always compatible between years and some elements are erroneously specified, or not specified at all. To counter this, I have generated a "mother" *.sav file containing zero cases bsa1983to2017zerocases.sav which can be used to make the metadata for any or all waves mutually compatible.using the SPSS command: APPLY DICTIONARY
See: British Social Attitudes: Making files from different years compatible
British Social Attitudes Survey
Data safeguarding requirements of the newly implemented European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) mean that no actual data can be uploaded to this site from the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS). Instead users must check the series list of available files and click the Access link to request downloads of individual source files direct from UKDS.
From October 2018, users wishing to download and use data from the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS) must
1: have (or open) an account at UKDS
2: be registered for use of BSAS data
3: be logged in to their UKDS account
See: Downloading British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS) data from the UK Data Service
My tutorials are still accessible, but are currently being re-written without links to SPSS saved files for the BSAS previously downloadable from this site. Hyperlinks in my tutorials to SPSS *.sav files for the BSAS, previously downloadable from this site, will cause type 404 errors. All SPSS saved files for surveys from 1990 to 2017 have been removed and links links to them have been disabled. All affected tutorials are currently being rewritten to redirect users to the appropriate page at the UK Data Service (UKDS).
The metadata of the original SPSS files has undergone various changes over the years: this means that the metadata are not always compatible between years and some elements are erroneously specified, or not specified at all. To counter this, I have generated a "mother" *.sav file containing zero cases bsa1983to2017zerocases.sav which can be used to make the metadata for any or all waves mutually compatible.using the SPSS command: APPLY DICTIONARY
See: British Social Attitudes: Making files from different years compatible
SPSS
Survey Analysis Workshop is a complete teach-yourself course on the use of SPSS to capture, process, manage and analyse data from questionnaire surveys. It contains learning materials based on the unique professional, practice-oriented course (postgraduate, part-time, evening, hands-on ) which I designed and taught from 1976 until 1992. For the final teaching program see SR501: Survey Analysis Workshop (1991-92)
Workshop materials have been converted, updated and greatly expanded for use with SPSS for Windows (currently release 24). They consist of extensive entry-level tutorials and proceed gently, step-by-step, with full colour screenshots at each step.
They are for use with SPSS for Windows and will work with all releases from SPSS 11 onwards. The examples on this site have been generated with successive releases SPSS 15, PASW Statistics 18, IBM SPSS Statistics 19 and IBM SPSS Statistics 21 and 22 (how are we poor tutors to keep up?) and use SPSS syntax (its English-like command language) in preference to the drop-down menus from the Graphic User Interface (GUI). However, many examples and exercises are also repeated using the drop-down menus. There is a full range of supporting materials (facsimile questionnaires, raw data sets, SPSS saved files) from my own surveys and from major survey series, as well as links to SPSS tutorials and useful materials available elsewhere via the web.
What is SPSS? is a brief history of the development of SPSS
SPSS Without Tears is my quick intro to SPSS.
What will I learn?
See: The Beginners’ [Clods’ ] Guide to Survey Analysis Using SPSS
Summary guide to SPSS tutorials is a page with links to, and listing the contents of, the four blocks of tutorials.
Catalogue of SPSS tutorials is an Excel file containing a full listing (with hyperlinks) of all tutorials. (Does not display in a window, but downloads as a separate file: check downloads at bottom left of this screen) [May not always be entirely up-to-date, but there are links to 625 pages of documents as at 10 March 2014]
There is also a pdf file Catalogue of SPSS tutorials which displays as a new window.
Guide to page and pop-out menus is a pdf document showing the screenshots for pop-out menus and sub-menus. [May not always be entirely up-to-date, but shows you how the pop-out menus work]
The full course starts on page Introduction to Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)
Enjoy!
There is a comprehensive set of Statistical Notes, specially written to accompany this course.
See also page: A note on statistical concepts
.
[NB: For the program that didn't make it, see Hall 1968 (A general data-processing package). This program was developed from 1965 to 1968 on the English Electric KDF9 computer at the Royal College of Advanced Technology, Salford (input and output on 8-hole paper tape) and was later modified to run on an English Electric PDP-11. It was maintained as the Salford Survey Suite until 1979 when, in view of the wide availability of SPSS, I advised it be discontinued.]
Workshop materials have been converted, updated and greatly expanded for use with SPSS for Windows (currently release 24). They consist of extensive entry-level tutorials and proceed gently, step-by-step, with full colour screenshots at each step.
They are for use with SPSS for Windows and will work with all releases from SPSS 11 onwards. The examples on this site have been generated with successive releases SPSS 15, PASW Statistics 18, IBM SPSS Statistics 19 and IBM SPSS Statistics 21 and 22 (how are we poor tutors to keep up?) and use SPSS syntax (its English-like command language) in preference to the drop-down menus from the Graphic User Interface (GUI). However, many examples and exercises are also repeated using the drop-down menus. There is a full range of supporting materials (facsimile questionnaires, raw data sets, SPSS saved files) from my own surveys and from major survey series, as well as links to SPSS tutorials and useful materials available elsewhere via the web.
What is SPSS? is a brief history of the development of SPSS
SPSS Without Tears is my quick intro to SPSS.
What will I learn?
See: The Beginners’ [Clods’ ] Guide to Survey Analysis Using SPSS
Summary guide to SPSS tutorials is a page with links to, and listing the contents of, the four blocks of tutorials.
Catalogue of SPSS tutorials is an Excel file containing a full listing (with hyperlinks) of all tutorials. (Does not display in a window, but downloads as a separate file: check downloads at bottom left of this screen) [May not always be entirely up-to-date, but there are links to 625 pages of documents as at 10 March 2014]
There is also a pdf file Catalogue of SPSS tutorials which displays as a new window.
Guide to page and pop-out menus is a pdf document showing the screenshots for pop-out menus and sub-menus. [May not always be entirely up-to-date, but shows you how the pop-out menus work]
The full course starts on page Introduction to Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)
Enjoy!
There is a comprehensive set of Statistical Notes, specially written to accompany this course.
See also page: A note on statistical concepts
.
[NB: For the program that didn't make it, see Hall 1968 (A general data-processing package). This program was developed from 1965 to 1968 on the English Electric KDF9 computer at the Royal College of Advanced Technology, Salford (input and output on 8-hole paper tape) and was later modified to run on an English Electric PDP-11. It was maintained as the Salford Survey Suite until 1979 when, in view of the wide availability of SPSS, I advised it be discontinued.]