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2.1: Nominal and ordinal level variables
[Page last updated 30 March 2013]
All links on this page are to pdf files
2.1 Nominal and ordinal variables (detailed contents)
Lists full details of the coverage and contents of each of the entries below.
The first set uses data from the precourse questionnaire, the second set from the 1986 British Social Attitudes survey and the third replicates exercises from the second set on the same variables in the 1989 British Social Attitudes survey.
1: Precourse questionnaire
myclass3.sav SPSS saved file (N=169) for pre-course questionnaire on interests and skills
2.1.2.1 Tutorial - Frequencies for nominal and ordinal variables
2.1.2.2 Exercise - Frequencies for nominal and ordinal variables
2: 1986 British Social Attitudes survey
2.1.2.3 Questions and data for nominal and ordinal variables
2.1.2.4 Reading in data for nominal and ordinal variables
2.1.2.5 Extending your data dictionary
2.1.2.6 Checking your file contents
2.1.2.7 Frequencies for nominal and ordinal variables
2.1.2.8 Housekeeping [necessary to avoid clutter on your desktop]
3: 1989 British Social Attitudes survey
2.1.2.9 Homework exercise for nominal and ordinal variables
2.1.2.10 Specimen answer for homework exercise 1
2.1.2.11 Checking your file `contents
2.1.2.12 Specimen answer for homework exercise 2
Forward to next section 2.2: Interval scale variables
Back to Block 2: Analysiing one variable
Back to Summary guide to SPSS tutorials
All links on this page are to pdf files
2.1 Nominal and ordinal variables (detailed contents)
Lists full details of the coverage and contents of each of the entries below.
The first set uses data from the precourse questionnaire, the second set from the 1986 British Social Attitudes survey and the third replicates exercises from the second set on the same variables in the 1989 British Social Attitudes survey.
1: Precourse questionnaire
myclass3.sav SPSS saved file (N=169) for pre-course questionnaire on interests and skills
2.1.2.1 Tutorial - Frequencies for nominal and ordinal variables
2.1.2.2 Exercise - Frequencies for nominal and ordinal variables
2: 1986 British Social Attitudes survey
2.1.2.3 Questions and data for nominal and ordinal variables
2.1.2.4 Reading in data for nominal and ordinal variables
2.1.2.5 Extending your data dictionary
2.1.2.6 Checking your file contents
2.1.2.7 Frequencies for nominal and ordinal variables
2.1.2.8 Housekeeping [necessary to avoid clutter on your desktop]
3: 1989 British Social Attitudes survey
2.1.2.9 Homework exercise for nominal and ordinal variables
2.1.2.10 Specimen answer for homework exercise 1
2.1.2.11 Checking your file `contents
2.1.2.12 Specimen answer for homework exercise 2
Forward to next section 2.2: Interval scale variables
Back to Block 2: Analysiing one variable
Back to Summary guide to SPSS tutorials