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                                                                                                  Post Title. 08/07/2010
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                                                                                                  Dear Reader,

                                                                                                  We have just installed a blog feed for feedback on this site, especially the SPSS Tutorials.  Please feel free to comment.

                                                                                                  John Hall.
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                                                                                                  Latest material added to site 13/04/2010
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                                                                                                  I've just added a stack of stuff on useful websites covering academic survey centres (UK) major survey organisations, major survey series, SPSS courses, SPSS web resources, professional associations etc.  I'm a bit new to blogging and RSS. but my local  IT wizard says to add a link to your RSS feed http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/1/feed
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                                                                                                  Latest news 28/03/2010
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                                                                                                  [Important notice] 

                                                                                                  SPSS Inc. was acquired by IBM in October, 2009.  As a result, the organization’s name changed immediately and is now “SPSS, an IBM company".   Materials posted up to 20 March 2010 use release 15: materials added after 21 March 2010 may also use release 18 (PASW 18).  The user interface is different in appearance (see comparative screenshots), but all the exercises and examples should still work with earlier versions of SPSS.  If not, I shall post a warning notice and a workaround.
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                                                                                                  First Post! 11/10/2009
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                                                                                                  Start blogging by creating a new post. You can edit or delete me by clicking under the comments. You can also customize your sidebar by dragging in elements from the top bar.
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                                                                                                  • Home
                                                                                                    • About the author>
                                                                                                      • Summary cv: John F Hall
                                                                                                        • Extra-curricular professional and political activities
                                                                                                      • Search
                                                                                                      • Recent additions and modifications
                                                                                                      • Surveys in the news
                                                                                                      • SPSS and Survey Analysis Workshop
                                                                                                        • Author's note
                                                                                                          • How I discovered SPSS: in at the deep end
                                                                                                            • Background to current project
                                                                                                              • What is SPSS?>
                                                                                                                • Currently available SPSS materials
                                                                                                                • Note on SPSS tutorials
                                                                                                                  • Old Dog, Old Tricks
                                                                                                                  • Summary guide to SPSS tutorials
                                                                                                                    • Block 1: From questionnaire to SPSS saved file
                                                                                                                      • Block 2: Analysing one variable>
                                                                                                                        • 2.1: Nominal and ordinal variables
                                                                                                                          • 2.2: Interval scale variables
                                                                                                                            • 2.3: Data transformations
                                                                                                                            • Block 3: Analysing two variables (and sometimes three)>
                                                                                                                              • 3.1 Two variables (CROSSTABS)
                                                                                                                                • 3.2 Three variables
                                                                                                                                  • 3.3 Multiple response (MULT RESPONSE)
                                                                                                                                    • 3.4 Conditional data transformations (IF and DO IF)
                                                                                                                                      • 3.5 Derived variables (COUNT and COMPUTE)>
                                                                                                                                        • 3.5.1 Introduction to COUNT and COMPUTE
                                                                                                                                          • 3.5.2 Teenage Attitudes (Tutorials)
                                                                                                                                        • Block 4: Hypothesis testing
                                                                                                                                          • Data sets and documents used in tutorials and exercises
                                                                                                                                            • Statistics notes to accompany course
                                                                                                                                            • SPSS Textbooks
                                                                                                                                            • Useful links for SPSS
                                                                                                                                              • SPSS Intros and tutorials
                                                                                                                                                • SPSS courses
                                                                                                                                                • Survey Research Methodology, Practice and Training
                                                                                                                                                  • Survey Research and the Social Sciences
                                                                                                                                                    • Doing Survey Research>
                                                                                                                                                      • Postgraduate courses
                                                                                                                                                        • Summer schools
                                                                                                                                                          • Short courses
                                                                                                                                                            • Journals for survey research
                                                                                                                                                              • Articles on survey research
                                                                                                                                                            • Survey Methods Textbooks
                                                                                                                                                            • Useful links for Survey Research
                                                                                                                                                              • Major survey series
                                                                                                                                                                • Professional and Voluntary Associations
                                                                                                                                                                  • Survey research organisations
                                                                                                                                                                    • Academic centres specialising in survey research
                                                                                                                                                                      • Web-based resources for survey research>
                                                                                                                                                                        • Survey Resources Network
                                                                                                                                                                          • On-line surveys
                                                                                                                                                                            • Question Banks
                                                                                                                                                                              • Survey methods guides and tutorials
                                                                                                                                                                            • Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (UK)
                                                                                                                                                                              • Mark Abrams
                                                                                                                                                                                • Surveys by SSRC Survey Unit
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Publications: SSRC Survey Unit
                                                                                                                                                                                    • Courses, Conferences and Seminars
                                                                                                                                                                                    • Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
                                                                                                                                                                                      • SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain surveys
                                                                                                                                                                                        • Quality of Life Publications
                                                                                                                                                                                          • "Trinians" survey
                                                                                                                                                                                          • Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London
                                                                                                                                                                                            • Survey Research Unit>
                                                                                                                                                                                              • Training courses in survey methods
                                                                                                                                                                                                • Playground to Politics
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • The place of SRU within PNL
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Director's Working Group on the Survey Research Unit
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Contact
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • WEB Log