- Home
- Search
- Recent additions and modifications
- Surveys in the news
- SPSS and Survey Analysis Workshop
- Summary guide to SPSS tutorials
- SPSS Textbooks
- Useful links for SPSS
- Survey Research Methodology, Practice and Training
- Survey Methods Textbooks
- Useful links for Survey Research
- Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (UK)
- Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
- Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London
- Contact
- WEB Log
Block 2: Analysing one variable
[Page last updated 7 Nov 2011]
Files are in *.pdf format and are optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm.)
They are set in Arial 11-point font and are legible even when printed two pages to a sheet.
The general sequencing principle for exercises will be:
1: Work-through on pre-course questionnaire, plus possible exercise
2: Tutorials and work-through exercises using British Social Attitudes 1986
3: Homework exercises on British Social Attitudes 1989 (with specimen answers)
4: Lucky dip (European Social Survey, British Social Attitudes up to 2008, and NORC General Social
Survey (USA) when I find time to generate some examples)
All raw data, SPSS saved files and key syntax files can be found on data sets and documents, but you'll learn a lot more if you do all the exercises yourself instead of slavishly copying them.
Files are in *.pdf format and are optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm.)
They are set in Arial 11-point font and are legible even when printed two pages to a sheet.
The general sequencing principle for exercises will be:
1: Work-through on pre-course questionnaire, plus possible exercise
2: Tutorials and work-through exercises using British Social Attitudes 1986
3: Homework exercises on British Social Attitudes 1989 (with specimen answers)
4: Lucky dip (European Social Survey, British Social Attitudes up to 2008, and NORC General Social
Survey (USA) when I find time to generate some examples)
All raw data, SPSS saved files and key syntax files can be found on data sets and documents, but you'll learn a lot more if you do all the exercises yourself instead of slavishly copying them.
2.1: Nominal and ordinal variables
2.2: Interval scale variables
2.3: Data transformations
Selecting variables for analysis, changing the names of variables, changing the values of variables. Creating new variables from existing ones. Selecting cases for analysis as a transition from analysing one variable to analysing two or more variables.
2.2: Interval scale variables
2.3: Data transformations
Selecting variables for analysis, changing the names of variables, changing the values of variables. Creating new variables from existing ones. Selecting cases for analysis as a transition from analysing one variable to analysing two or more variables.
2.2: Interval scale variables
[Major revisions and improvements 2 - 5 Dec 2010]
2.2 Interval and ratio variables (detailed contents) summarises the coverage and contents 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.
Precourse questionnaire
2.2.1.1 [myclass] Frequencies for interval variables
1986 British Social Attitudes survey
2.2.1.2 [bsa86] Exercise - Reading in data for interval variables
2.2.1.3 [bsa86] Extending your data dictionary
2.2.1.4 [bsa86] Exercise - Frequencies for interval variables
2.2.1.5 [bsa86] Specimen answer for frequencies exercise
1989 British Social Attitudes survey
2.2.1.6 [bsa89] Homework exercises
2.2.1.7 [bsa89] Specimen answer for homework exercises
[Brand new: bit more housekeeping]
2.2.1.8 [bsa89] Supplementary exercise - combining your saved files
2.2 Interval and ratio variables (detailed contents) summarises the coverage and contents 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.
Precourse questionnaire
2.2.1.1 [myclass] Frequencies for interval variables
1986 British Social Attitudes survey
2.2.1.2 [bsa86] Exercise - Reading in data for interval variables
2.2.1.3 [bsa86] Extending your data dictionary
2.2.1.4 [bsa86] Exercise - Frequencies for interval variables
2.2.1.5 [bsa86] Specimen answer for frequencies exercise
1989 British Social Attitudes survey
2.2.1.6 [bsa89] Homework exercises
2.2.1.7 [bsa89] Specimen answer for homework exercises
[Brand new: bit more housekeeping]
2.2.1.8 [bsa89] Supplementary exercise - combining your saved files
2.3: Data transformations
Selecting variables for analysis, changing the names of variables, changing the values of variables. Creating new variables from existing ones. Selecting cases for analysis as a transition from analysing one variable to analysing two or more variables.
2.3.1.1 Data transformations
2.3.1.2 Exercise to rename variables
2.3.1.3 Conditional frequencies exercise
2.3.1.4 Specimen answers for exercise 2.3.1.3 (Conditional frequencies)
This is the final draft of a very extended and detailed exercise: it's quite long (26 pp) but manageable. It uses data from the 1986 British Social Attitudes survey as an exemplar as preparation for moving from analysing one variable to analysing two or more variables.
The following are in preparation
Conditional frequencies homework, repeating exercise 2.3.1.4 on the same variables from the 1989 British Social Attitudes survey.
Specimen answer for conditional frequencies homework
More data transformation exercises
2.3.1.1 Data transformations
2.3.1.2 Exercise to rename variables
2.3.1.3 Conditional frequencies exercise
2.3.1.4 Specimen answers for exercise 2.3.1.3 (Conditional frequencies)
This is the final draft of a very extended and detailed exercise: it's quite long (26 pp) but manageable. It uses data from the 1986 British Social Attitudes survey as an exemplar as preparation for moving from analysing one variable to analysing two or more variables.
The following are in preparation
Conditional frequencies homework, repeating exercise 2.3.1.4 on the same variables from the 1989 British Social Attitudes survey.
Specimen answer for conditional frequencies homework
More data transformation exercises
