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Guide to SPSS tutorials for Survey Analysis Workshop
I am no longer uploading SPSS tutorials to, or maintaining them on, the academia.edu site.
All following hyperlinks links are to materials on my own site Journeys in Survey Research.
The SPSS tutorials are all in my Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS) course.
The tutorials and exercises are arranged in four main blocks, following the usual research sequence of data capture, data processing and data analysis, with occasional (cynical, wise and experienced) comments thrown in from time to time on problem formulation, research design and survey practice as well as on how
SPSS works (or sometimes not!).
All exercises and examples relate to SPSS/PASW 18 or (if written after June 2011) SPSS 19, but they all work with SPSS 15 (and probably also SPSS 11). Some earlier material (eg my 2006 Old Dog, Old Tricks paper and slide-shows) uses SPSS 11. Apart from minor differences in syntax, only the screenshots are
different.
There's a pencil and paper exercise for you to complete at the beginning, but after that, all tutorials and exercises use actual data from real (major) surveys. Files in *.doc format were set in 11-point Arial and optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm). Most of them have now been converted to pdf format. They are legible even if printed two pages to a sheet. As of June 2011 I am using Word 2007 which can save files in genuine *.pdf format with fully functioning hyperlinks. These retain all original page
formatting and are much quicker to display. They will gradually replace files in *.doc format.
Summary Guide to SPSS Tutorials displays contents of, and links to, the four main sections of the course and to two groups of support materials.
Detailed guide to SPSS tutorials (pdf 9 pages) lists the full contents (with hyperlinks) of all the main menus. There are more than 450 pages of downloadable tutorials and supporting materials.
John Hall 31 March 2013
All following hyperlinks links are to materials on my own site Journeys in Survey Research.
The SPSS tutorials are all in my Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS) course.
The tutorials and exercises are arranged in four main blocks, following the usual research sequence of data capture, data processing and data analysis, with occasional (cynical, wise and experienced) comments thrown in from time to time on problem formulation, research design and survey practice as well as on how
SPSS works (or sometimes not!).
All exercises and examples relate to SPSS/PASW 18 or (if written after June 2011) SPSS 19, but they all work with SPSS 15 (and probably also SPSS 11). Some earlier material (eg my 2006 Old Dog, Old Tricks paper and slide-shows) uses SPSS 11. Apart from minor differences in syntax, only the screenshots are
different.
There's a pencil and paper exercise for you to complete at the beginning, but after that, all tutorials and exercises use actual data from real (major) surveys. Files in *.doc format were set in 11-point Arial and optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm). Most of them have now been converted to pdf format. They are legible even if printed two pages to a sheet. As of June 2011 I am using Word 2007 which can save files in genuine *.pdf format with fully functioning hyperlinks. These retain all original page
formatting and are much quicker to display. They will gradually replace files in *.doc format.
Summary Guide to SPSS Tutorials displays contents of, and links to, the four main sections of the course and to two groups of support materials.
Detailed guide to SPSS tutorials (pdf 9 pages) lists the full contents (with hyperlinks) of all the main menus. There are more than 450 pages of downloadable tutorials and supporting materials.
John Hall 31 March 2013