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SPSS intros and tutorials
[Page last updated 18 Dec 2011]
There are a great many sites with intros, tutorials and help. The list is constantly changing. Below is a selection of those I think you will find most useful. They range from beginner level to more advanced. All are in English except one, which is in French (and very good at that).
SPSS in 60 pages
This handy little booklet covers the whole process of designing and running a survey.
Although it's a plug for SPSS products, it's a useful prelude to the more detailed
approaches in textbooks, and is clearly derived from intensive and prolonged
experience of conducting and analysing surveys.
Tutorials for Students
("Solutions for Education" on the IBM SPSS website ) This comprehensive series of in-depth video tutorials developed at Central Michigan University for SPSS 9 takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals of using IBM SPSS Statistics. The videos are all in *.MOV format and won't play with Windows Media Player, but they do work with Quicktime or any other software which supports *.MOV format. Don't worry if it's an old version of SPSS: it's the process and logic which matter.
SPSS à l'UdeS
(in French, by Eric Yergeau and colleagues, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)
Complete set of tutorials aimed at beginners: easy to navigate and very well organised.
SPSS (Information Systems Services, University of Leeds)
Comprehensive set of tutorials covers:
Getting started with SPSS
Basic data operations in SPSS
Advanced data operations in SPSS
Importing and exporting in SPSS Input and output using the SPSS command language
Statistical analysis in SPSS (Part 1)
Statistical analysis in SPSS (Part 2)
Spreadsheets and data analysis tools
(Information Services, University of Edinburgh)
Comprehensive and detailed set of tutorials and course notes (including Excel) covers:
Getting Started with SPSS
Using SPSS Output
Changing Data in SPSS 14 and 15
Changing SPSS Data Files
Getting Started with SPSS Syntax
SPSS Syntax for Data Files
SPSS Video Tutor
Impressive set of video clips by Jacob Mays, many of which are free to members signing up. They use GUI, not syntax, but you can see the screenshots and cursor movements as if you are the user in real time.
SPSS Help and Tutorials
Set of 2010 tutorials from California State University with links to SPSS video tutorials, workshops, and handouts provided by the ITS Training Program, as well as other useful resources available on the web. See also Getting started with SPSS for Windows (published in 2000 for SPSS 9 and 11, but very useful for absolute beginners as it also covers Windows).
Getting started with SPSS for Windows:
Extensive and detailed set of 2010 tutorials by John Samuel (IT Services, Indiana University) using SPSS drop-down menus rather than syntax.
Getting Started
Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Displaying Data
Data Manipulation and Advanced Topics
Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation, College of Natural Sciences, The
University of Texas at Austin (Menu-based: some elements may need login
authorisation)
SPSS Links and Statistical Resources Links
(Dr Karl Wuensch, Psychology, East Carolina, University)
[Only just found this, but it's comprehensive and wouldn't be listed if it wasn't good]
Internet Guide to SPSS (PASW) for Windows
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer (Siegen) and Dr Ute Liebeskind (Bamberg)
[Only just found this, but it's comprehensive and wouldn't be listed if it wasn't good. It 's also one of the few which uses syntax]
SPSS (PASW) On-line Training Workshop
Central Michigan University
Comprehensive set of tutorials, including movie clips of screenshots, targeted at students
with no previous experience of SPSS. Examples use SPSS 9 to SPSS 16 and are based
on questionnaire type data sets. These are the same tutorials as the ones used by IBM
SPSS (see last entry on this page)
SPSS Basic Skills Tutorials Illinois State University (Introductory: menus only)
SPSS Statistics Tutorial
Open University (Cleverly designed set of Interactive tutorials
demonstrating menus and some statistical procedures)
Resources to help you learn and use SPSS
Academic Technology Services, UCLA
includes Data Management and Beyond Point and Click: SPSS Syntax (absolutely fantastic series of video clips)
SPSS Essentials for Social Statistics
Quincy Edwards, (Univ of Hawaii)
Set of 19 step-by-step slide-shows (SPSS 15/16 ) no commentary, but self-explanatory) for students in sociology and related subjects.
Raynald's SPSS Tools Raynald Levesque's site (one of the best)
SPSS links Bruce Weaver, Lakehead Univ. Ontario
Angelfire SPSS syntax tutorials (again one of the best)
SPSS Help - An Introduction to Using SPSS
John Kwan: links to CSULA's SPSS help and tutorials for a series of SPSS online how to videos.
A quick introduction to SPSS (SPSS 19, 2011)
Summer Tutorial (SPSS 17, 2009)
Two useful documents from ITS, University of Iowa
Datastep
This site is no longer maintained as the authors are now mostly retired. The tutorials are for SPSS 11.5, but there's still some very useful stuff in them.
SPSSTraining
SPSSTutorial_1
SPSSTutorial_2
General Statistics and SPSS
Comprehensive set of real-time video screencasts by Chris Longmore (Hull University) for a range of step-by-step data management and analysis tasks using the GUI. Mainly for people working in Psychology, but also useful for other disciplines, Duration 14 sec up to 33 mins: needs Quicktime 7 to play.
Free SPSS Stuff
Marta Garcia-Granero, University of Navarra (Table with links for free downloads)
SPSS : Tricks and Treats Screenshot Tutorials
Kent State Univ.
Reports and Tables in SPSS
Reinhold Hatzinger Vienna University of Economics and Business
GUI for SPSS 10 (He'd forgotten about it!) but useful as it explains publishable table formatting for frequencies and crosstabs
Statnotes: Topics in Multivariate Analysis
G David Garson (North Carolina State University). Comprehensive set of statistics tutorials. Site also has notes on Qualitative Methods and Theoretical Frameworks
SPSS video tutorials on Youtube
These are on channels published by people who are not necessarily the original authors, but it’s definitely worth browsing to see what there is.
PASW Statistics Syntax: Keeping Your Sanity While Managing Large Files
Biostatistics Consulting, University of Massachusetts School of Public Health
(October 2009)
Blogspot for SPSS, R etc
Jeromy K Anglim, Psychology and Statistics, Melbourne Univ.
Easy to follow tutorials based on syntax rather than GUI
Video tour
Thomas W. MacFarland, Nova Southeastern University
Video tour through, and commentary on, SPSS - with mobile screenshots (58 mins)
There are a great many sites with intros, tutorials and help. The list is constantly changing. Below is a selection of those I think you will find most useful. They range from beginner level to more advanced. All are in English except one, which is in French (and very good at that).
SPSS in 60 pages
This handy little booklet covers the whole process of designing and running a survey.
Although it's a plug for SPSS products, it's a useful prelude to the more detailed
approaches in textbooks, and is clearly derived from intensive and prolonged
experience of conducting and analysing surveys.
Tutorials for Students
("Solutions for Education" on the IBM SPSS website ) This comprehensive series of in-depth video tutorials developed at Central Michigan University for SPSS 9 takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals of using IBM SPSS Statistics. The videos are all in *.MOV format and won't play with Windows Media Player, but they do work with Quicktime or any other software which supports *.MOV format. Don't worry if it's an old version of SPSS: it's the process and logic which matter.
SPSS à l'UdeS
(in French, by Eric Yergeau and colleagues, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)
Complete set of tutorials aimed at beginners: easy to navigate and very well organised.
SPSS (Information Systems Services, University of Leeds)
Comprehensive set of tutorials covers:
Getting started with SPSS
Basic data operations in SPSS
Advanced data operations in SPSS
Importing and exporting in SPSS Input and output using the SPSS command language
Statistical analysis in SPSS (Part 1)
Statistical analysis in SPSS (Part 2)
Spreadsheets and data analysis tools
(Information Services, University of Edinburgh)
Comprehensive and detailed set of tutorials and course notes (including Excel) covers:
Getting Started with SPSS
Using SPSS Output
Changing Data in SPSS 14 and 15
Changing SPSS Data Files
Getting Started with SPSS Syntax
SPSS Syntax for Data Files
SPSS Video Tutor
Impressive set of video clips by Jacob Mays, many of which are free to members signing up. They use GUI, not syntax, but you can see the screenshots and cursor movements as if you are the user in real time.
SPSS Help and Tutorials
Set of 2010 tutorials from California State University with links to SPSS video tutorials, workshops, and handouts provided by the ITS Training Program, as well as other useful resources available on the web. See also Getting started with SPSS for Windows (published in 2000 for SPSS 9 and 11, but very useful for absolute beginners as it also covers Windows).
Getting started with SPSS for Windows:
Extensive and detailed set of 2010 tutorials by John Samuel (IT Services, Indiana University) using SPSS drop-down menus rather than syntax.
Getting Started
Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Displaying Data
Data Manipulation and Advanced Topics
Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation, College of Natural Sciences, The
University of Texas at Austin (Menu-based: some elements may need login
authorisation)
SPSS Links and Statistical Resources Links
(Dr Karl Wuensch, Psychology, East Carolina, University)
[Only just found this, but it's comprehensive and wouldn't be listed if it wasn't good]
Internet Guide to SPSS (PASW) for Windows
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer (Siegen) and Dr Ute Liebeskind (Bamberg)
[Only just found this, but it's comprehensive and wouldn't be listed if it wasn't good. It 's also one of the few which uses syntax]
SPSS (PASW) On-line Training Workshop
Central Michigan University
Comprehensive set of tutorials, including movie clips of screenshots, targeted at students
with no previous experience of SPSS. Examples use SPSS 9 to SPSS 16 and are based
on questionnaire type data sets. These are the same tutorials as the ones used by IBM
SPSS (see last entry on this page)
SPSS Basic Skills Tutorials Illinois State University (Introductory: menus only)
SPSS Statistics Tutorial
Open University (Cleverly designed set of Interactive tutorials
demonstrating menus and some statistical procedures)
Resources to help you learn and use SPSS
Academic Technology Services, UCLA
includes Data Management and Beyond Point and Click: SPSS Syntax (absolutely fantastic series of video clips)
SPSS Essentials for Social Statistics
Quincy Edwards, (Univ of Hawaii)
Set of 19 step-by-step slide-shows (SPSS 15/16 ) no commentary, but self-explanatory) for students in sociology and related subjects.
Raynald's SPSS Tools Raynald Levesque's site (one of the best)
SPSS links Bruce Weaver, Lakehead Univ. Ontario
Angelfire SPSS syntax tutorials (again one of the best)
SPSS Help - An Introduction to Using SPSS
John Kwan: links to CSULA's SPSS help and tutorials for a series of SPSS online how to videos.
A quick introduction to SPSS (SPSS 19, 2011)
Summer Tutorial (SPSS 17, 2009)
Two useful documents from ITS, University of Iowa
Datastep
This site is no longer maintained as the authors are now mostly retired. The tutorials are for SPSS 11.5, but there's still some very useful stuff in them.
SPSSTraining
SPSSTutorial_1
SPSSTutorial_2
General Statistics and SPSS
Comprehensive set of real-time video screencasts by Chris Longmore (Hull University) for a range of step-by-step data management and analysis tasks using the GUI. Mainly for people working in Psychology, but also useful for other disciplines, Duration 14 sec up to 33 mins: needs Quicktime 7 to play.
Free SPSS Stuff
Marta Garcia-Granero, University of Navarra (Table with links for free downloads)
SPSS : Tricks and Treats Screenshot Tutorials
Kent State Univ.
Reports and Tables in SPSS
Reinhold Hatzinger Vienna University of Economics and Business
GUI for SPSS 10 (He'd forgotten about it!) but useful as it explains publishable table formatting for frequencies and crosstabs
Statnotes: Topics in Multivariate Analysis
G David Garson (North Carolina State University). Comprehensive set of statistics tutorials. Site also has notes on Qualitative Methods and Theoretical Frameworks
SPSS video tutorials on Youtube
These are on channels published by people who are not necessarily the original authors, but it’s definitely worth browsing to see what there is.
PASW Statistics Syntax: Keeping Your Sanity While Managing Large Files
Biostatistics Consulting, University of Massachusetts School of Public Health
(October 2009)
Blogspot for SPSS, R etc
Jeromy K Anglim, Psychology and Statistics, Melbourne Univ.
Easy to follow tutorials based on syntax rather than GUI
Video tour
Thomas W. MacFarland, Nova Southeastern University
Video tour through, and commentary on, SPSS - with mobile screenshots (58 mins)
