Basic data analysis

The basic analysis of SPSS that will be introduced in this class

Frequencies This analysis produces frequency tables showing

frequency counts and percentages of the values of individual variables.

Descriptives This analysis shows the maximum, minimum,

mean, and standard deviation of the variables

Linear regression analysis Linear Regression estimates the coefficients of the

linear equation

Frequencies

Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then click ‘Frequencies’. The sample file employee.sav is used in this demonstration

Frequencies

Click gender and put it into the variable box.

Click ‘Charts.’

Then click ‘Bar charts’ and click ‘Continue.’

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Frequencies

Finally Click OK in the Frequencies box.

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Output view

Descriptives

Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then click ‘Descriptives…’

Click ‘Educational level’ and ‘Beginning Salary,’ and put it into the variable box.

Click Options

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Descriptives

The options allows you to analyze other descriptive statistics besides the mean and Std.dev

Click ‘variance’ and ‘kurtosis’

Finally click ‘Continue’

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Descriptives

Finally Click OK in the Descriptives box. You will be able to see the result of the analysis.

Practice 4

Do a frequency analysis on the variable “minority”

Create pie charts for it

Descriptives

Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then click ‘frequencies…’

Click ‘minority’ and put it into the variable box.

Select pie chart under chart type.

Select frequencies and continue.

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Answer

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Creating charts from menu

Use demo.sav file (sample folder)

Click on graph menu

Choose chart builder

Click gallery tab

click on bar

Drag the stacked bar icon onto the canvas

Select – employment category on Y-axis

gender on X axis

Creating charts from menu

Use demo.sav file (from sample folder)

Click on graph menu

Choose chart builder

Click gallery tab

click on bar

Drag the stacked bar icon onto the canvas

Select variables– employment category Y-

gender X axis

Creating charts from menu

Use demo.sav file (from sample folder)

Click on graph menu

Choose chart builder

Click gallery tab

click on bar and

Drag the simple bar icon onto the canvas

Select – variable job satisfaction and right click on it to change measure to ordinal. Then drag onto X axis

Select – variable household income and drag onto y axis

See statistic change to mean from count.

Creating charts

Creating charts from menu

Use employee data.sav file (from sample folder)

Click on graph menu

Choose chart builder

In choose from list select scatter/dot

Drag the simplest scatter plot diagram onto the canvas

Select – variable Beginning salary then drag onto X axis

Select – variable Current salary and drag onto y axis

Click on OK button

Here you have a simple scatter plot showing the effect of starting salary on current salary.