- Welcome
- Important notice
- About the author
- About this site
- Site guide + Search box
- Dedications
- Acknowledgments
- My personal pantheon (of the great and the good in survey research)
- Recent and planned activities
- Textbooks for Research Methods and Data Analysis
- 1: Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)
- 1a: Statistical concepts and methods
- 1b: Teaching with Survey Data
- 1c: Developing research projects using survey data
- 1d: Workshop and presentations for ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe)
- 2: Survey Research Practice
- 2a: Survey Research Methodology, Practice and Training
- 2b: Major survey series
- 3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
- 4: Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (UK)
- 5a: Polytechnic of North London (1976-1992)
- 5b: Survey Research Unit (1978-1992)
- Village life in Normandy
- Contact
- Origins of the British Crime Survey
- British Crime Survey
Workshop and presentations for ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe)
[New page 5 March 2015: updated 4 September 2017]
I have done presentations for two meetings of ASSESS (SPSS Users in Europe) held at the University. of York (UK). Misleadingly light-hearted titles, but serious in their treatment. Old Dog, Old Tricks is quite fun, especially the first slide-show. There's a joke at the end of the last one, but will you get it?
2006
Old Dog, Old Tricks: Using SPSS syntax to beat the mouse-trap
History and development of SPSS and its arrival in UK. Critical examination of the use of SPSS in major surveys (including design of SPSS saved files) and one textbook (Pallant, 2001). Replication of exercises in syntax rather than GUI demonstrating that syntax is both easier and quicker for basic procedures.
Hundreds of hours' work over several months, but squeezed into 10-minutes including questions as I was given the last slot of the afternoon when delegates had already begun to leave to catch their trains back to London and Scotland. However the work wasn't wasted as it provided a base from which to build the current website.
2014
The Beginners’ Guide to Survey Analysis Using SPSS
Training workshop: SPSS in 3 hours!!
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: working with alien SPSS files
(Old Dog, Old Tricks 2: eight years later) Introduction to, and critical examination of, SPSS saved files for major surveys deposited with, and distributed by, the UK Data Service and other archives. Demonstrates some of the problems encountered and suggests solutions to make them easier to use for teaching and secondary analysis.
ASSESS 2014: Links to files for John Hall's sessions
Lists links to materials used in both above sessions.
I have done presentations for two meetings of ASSESS (SPSS Users in Europe) held at the University. of York (UK). Misleadingly light-hearted titles, but serious in their treatment. Old Dog, Old Tricks is quite fun, especially the first slide-show. There's a joke at the end of the last one, but will you get it?
2006
Old Dog, Old Tricks: Using SPSS syntax to beat the mouse-trap
History and development of SPSS and its arrival in UK. Critical examination of the use of SPSS in major surveys (including design of SPSS saved files) and one textbook (Pallant, 2001). Replication of exercises in syntax rather than GUI demonstrating that syntax is both easier and quicker for basic procedures.
Hundreds of hours' work over several months, but squeezed into 10-minutes including questions as I was given the last slot of the afternoon when delegates had already begun to leave to catch their trains back to London and Scotland. However the work wasn't wasted as it provided a base from which to build the current website.
2014
The Beginners’ Guide to Survey Analysis Using SPSS
Training workshop: SPSS in 3 hours!!
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: working with alien SPSS files
(Old Dog, Old Tricks 2: eight years later) Introduction to, and critical examination of, SPSS saved files for major surveys deposited with, and distributed by, the UK Data Service and other archives. Demonstrates some of the problems encountered and suggests solutions to make them easier to use for teaching and secondary analysis.
ASSESS 2014: Links to files for John Hall's sessions
Lists links to materials used in both above sessions.