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MacInnes, chapter 4: Getting Started with SPSS
[New page 4 July 2018: last updated 10 July 2018]
SPSS saved file for chapter 4
ess6_practice.sav (3.2 mb) is an SPSS saved file extracted directly from ESS6e02_3.sav the integrated mother file from round 6 of the European Social Survey (2012) and authorised for uploading to this site.
[NB: Numeration and nomenclature of guides subject to change, but chapter titles are copied from the book]
4.1: Guides to, and commentaries on, video tutorials
4.1.1 Overview of video tutorials 1 to 6 (16 pp)
4.1.2 Downloading the European Social Survey Practice File (9 pp)
4.1.3 Downloading the SPSS syntax (10 pp)
4.1.4_Checking_the_SPSS_files (12 pp)
4.1.5 Guide to video tutorials 7 and 8 (19 pp)
para 4.14: Creating a barchart in SPSS
para 4.15: Using the MEANS procedure
para 4.16: Recoding variables
para 4.17: Using Syntax in SPSS
4.1.6 Guide to video tutorial 9 (20 pp)
para 4.18: Subsetting and Selecting Cases
Recode into new variable
para 4.19: Three-way crosstabulation
4.1.7 Guide to video tutorials 10 and 11 (14pp)
para. 4.20: Exporting output to other applications
para 4.21: Examining Gender and Employment
para 4.22: Creating Numeric Versions of String Variables
4.1.8 Guide to video tutorial 12 for Chapter 4 (12pp)
para 4.23: Creating a Boxplot in SPSS
4.2 Guides to exercise answer videos
4.2.1_Exercise_answer_videos_1-6
4.2.2 Exercise answer video 7
4.2.3 Exercise answer video 8
4.2.4_Answer_ exercise_9
4.2.5_Answer_ exercise_10
SPSS saved file for chapter 4
ess6_practice.sav (3.2 mb) is an SPSS saved file extracted directly from ESS6e02_3.sav the integrated mother file from round 6 of the European Social Survey (2012) and authorised for uploading to this site.
- ESS Round 6: European Social Survey Round 6 Data (2012). Data file edition 2.3. NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data, Norway – Data Archive and distributor of ESS data for ESS ERIC.
[NB: Numeration and nomenclature of guides subject to change, but chapter titles are copied from the book]
4.1: Guides to, and commentaries on, video tutorials
4.1.1 Overview of video tutorials 1 to 6 (16 pp)
4.1.2 Downloading the European Social Survey Practice File (9 pp)
4.1.3 Downloading the SPSS syntax (10 pp)
4.1.4_Checking_the_SPSS_files (12 pp)
4.1.5 Guide to video tutorials 7 and 8 (19 pp)
para 4.14: Creating a barchart in SPSS
para 4.15: Using the MEANS procedure
para 4.16: Recoding variables
para 4.17: Using Syntax in SPSS
4.1.6 Guide to video tutorial 9 (20 pp)
para 4.18: Subsetting and Selecting Cases
Recode into new variable
para 4.19: Three-way crosstabulation
4.1.7 Guide to video tutorials 10 and 11 (14pp)
para. 4.20: Exporting output to other applications
para 4.21: Examining Gender and Employment
para 4.22: Creating Numeric Versions of String Variables
4.1.8 Guide to video tutorial 12 for Chapter 4 (12pp)
para 4.23: Creating a Boxplot in SPSS
4.2 Guides to exercise answer videos
4.2.1_Exercise_answer_videos_1-6
4.2.2 Exercise answer video 7
4.2.3 Exercise answer video 8
4.2.4_Answer_ exercise_9
4.2.5_Answer_ exercise_10