Dr. Engr. Sami ur Rahman

Data AnalysisBasic Analysis in SPSS

The basic analysis

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The basic analysis of SPSS that will be introduced

FrequenciesThis analysis produces frequency tables showing frequency counts and percentages of the values of individual variables.

DescriptivesThis analysis shows the maximum, minimum, mean, and standard deviation of the variables

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Opening the sample data

Open ‘Employee data.sav’ from the SPSSGo to “File,” “Open,” and Click Data

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Opening the sample data

Go to Program Files,” “SPSSInc,” “SPSS16,” and “Samples” folder.

Open “Employee Data.sav” file

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Frequencies

Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then click ‘Frequencies’

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Frequencies

Click gender and put it into the variable box.Click ‘Charts.’ Then click ‘Bar charts’ and click ‘Continue.’

Click Click

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Frequencies

Finally Click OK in the Frequencies box.

Click

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Practice 4

Do a frequency analysis on the variable “minority”

Create pie charts for it

Do the same analysis using the syntax editor

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Answer

Click

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Descriptives

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

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

Click Options

Click

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Descriptives

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

Finally click ‘Continue’

Click

Click

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Descriptives

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

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Running Analyses (Central Tendency)

26. Select the desired variables (household income) and click the arrow to move them to the right side

25. Select Analyze- Descriptive Stats- Frequencies

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Running Analyses (Central Tendency)

Results will appear

27. Select some measures of central tendency and dispersion- click Continue then OK

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Running Analyses (Correlation)

28. Click Analyze- Correlate- Bivariate

29. Move the two variables of interest to the right side (age & income), click OK

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Running Analyses (Correlation)

30. Results appear and tell us that the relationship is weak to moderate and results are not due to chance

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