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Major re-organisation of navigation and some components of Survey Analysis Workshop. New page (7 April 2013) SPSS Without Tears leads to all pages for SPSS tutorials and other SPSS resources.
Site first published: 15 October 2009
Site upgraded to Weebly Pro: 25 October 2012
(Embedded documents available; much larger files (up to 100mb) including video and audio)
Major re-organisation of navigation and some components of Survey Analysis Workshop. New page (7 April 2013) SPSS Without Tears leads to all pages for SPSS tutorials and other SPSS resources.
Site first published: 15 October 2009
Site upgraded to Weebly Pro: 25 October 2012
(Embedded documents available; much larger files (up to 100mb) including video and audio)
Welcome to what I hope you will find a valuable and interesting resource for researchers, students and others doing, or learning about, survey research and the analysis of survey data. You will find here a wealth of materials drawn from almost 50 years not only of doing dozens of surveys myself (and advising and assisting on hundreds of others) but also of teaching research methods and data analysis to social science students, including intensive use (and teaching) of SPSS since 1972.
[Photo: JFH at the Bar/Restaurant La Cale, Blainville-sur-Mer (50) France, July 2010]
Hello everyone. I'm John Hall, previously Senior Research Fellow, Survey Unit,
(UK) Social Science Research Council, (1970 - 76) and Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Unit Director, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London (1976 - 1992). I took early retirement in 1992 and came to live in Lower Normandy (France) in 1994, but am still actively supporting others wishing to learn about, or become practitioners of, social (survey) research.
This site has three main components:
1: Survey Analysis Workshop (but go to SPSS Without Tears first)
2: Survey Research Practice
3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
As well as developing the site, I am currently involved in:
1: The (UK) ESRC Quantitative Methods Teaching Initiative
(supported by the Nuffield Foundation Quantitative Methods Programme
and OECD Quantitative Methods Teaching)
2: Extensive contributions to the (UK) Office of National Statistics (ONS) initiative
on National Well-being and the associated discussion threads on StatsUserNet
3: Analysing recently released Measuring National well-being data from the Office of
National Statistics for comparisons with my own SSRC Quality of Life in Britain surveys and data from the European Quality of Life Surveys(EQLS), the
European Social Survey and the European Values Study.
New materials are being added regularly, so apologies if some pages keep appearing and disappearing in the left pane. It shouldn't affect your use of the site, but I occasionally need to publish hidden pages to verify contents and correct functioning of associated links.
[NB: I'm currently revising, rewriting and updating earlier tutorials from SPSS 15 and 18 to SPSS 19 (they all work with 15 and mostly with 11 anyway). This task is continuing, but I'll try to keep disruption to a minimum.
All downloadable tutorials are set in 11-point Arial and optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm). They are legible even if printed two pages to a sheet (to save trees and minimise printing costs). Files prepared up to June 2011 are in *.doc format from Word 2003. As of June 2011 I am using Word 2007 which can save files in *.pdf format with fully functioning hyperlinks. These retain all original page formatting and are much quicker to display. Hopefully *.pdf files will gradually replace all files currently in *.doc format]
I am extremely grateful to Terry Blom, without whose unstinting technical and engineering know-how, the site wouldn't exist at all. The Weebly team are pretty good as well.
[Photo: JFH at the Bar/Restaurant La Cale, Blainville-sur-Mer (50) France, July 2010]
Hello everyone. I'm John Hall, previously Senior Research Fellow, Survey Unit,
(UK) Social Science Research Council, (1970 - 76) and Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Unit Director, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London (1976 - 1992). I took early retirement in 1992 and came to live in Lower Normandy (France) in 1994, but am still actively supporting others wishing to learn about, or become practitioners of, social (survey) research.
This site has three main components:
1: Survey Analysis Workshop (but go to SPSS Without Tears first)
2: Survey Research Practice
3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
As well as developing the site, I am currently involved in:
1: The (UK) ESRC Quantitative Methods Teaching Initiative
(supported by the Nuffield Foundation Quantitative Methods Programme
and OECD Quantitative Methods Teaching)
2: Extensive contributions to the (UK) Office of National Statistics (ONS) initiative
on National Well-being and the associated discussion threads on StatsUserNet
3: Analysing recently released Measuring National well-being data from the Office of
National Statistics for comparisons with my own SSRC Quality of Life in Britain surveys and data from the European Quality of Life Surveys(EQLS), the
European Social Survey and the European Values Study.
New materials are being added regularly, so apologies if some pages keep appearing and disappearing in the left pane. It shouldn't affect your use of the site, but I occasionally need to publish hidden pages to verify contents and correct functioning of associated links.
[NB: I'm currently revising, rewriting and updating earlier tutorials from SPSS 15 and 18 to SPSS 19 (they all work with 15 and mostly with 11 anyway). This task is continuing, but I'll try to keep disruption to a minimum.
All downloadable tutorials are set in 11-point Arial and optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm). They are legible even if printed two pages to a sheet (to save trees and minimise printing costs). Files prepared up to June 2011 are in *.doc format from Word 2003. As of June 2011 I am using Word 2007 which can save files in *.pdf format with fully functioning hyperlinks. These retain all original page formatting and are much quicker to display. Hopefully *.pdf files will gradually replace all files currently in *.doc format]
I am extremely grateful to Terry Blom, without whose unstinting technical and engineering know-how, the site wouldn't exist at all. The Weebly team are pretty good as well.
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