PSY361 Basics of SPSS

     Opening SPSS:
     Double click on "SPSS 8.0"

     Entering Data:
    Here are some data to enter:
IQ-scores: 86, 92, 99, 101, 107, 110, 115, 125.

    Enter them into each cell, e.g.,

     Naming

     Double click "var"
     Type in a variable name, such as iq_score (make sure there are no spaces between words)
     Click "OK"

     Labeling values:

If you have nominal data, such as gender, then you must label the values you use.

Here is some gender data: Male, Male, Female, Female, Female, Female, Male, Female
The data would be entered in as #'s, e.g., 1's and 2's. Once the data was entered then you name it and assign the value labels.
 

     Double click "var"
     Click on "labels"
     Fill in the all information (values & value labels)
     Click on add to place value with value labels
It should look like this:

     Click on continue
     Click "OK"

 

Basic statistics:

     Click on statistics
     Go to summarize
     Click on frequencies

     Place variable(s) in the right hand box
     Click on statistics button and place a check mark by mean, skewness, median, and
     Std. deviation.

     Click on continue
     Click "OK"

Correlation:

     Click on statistics.
     Click on correlate
     Click on bivariate

     Click on the variables that you want to examine the correlation between.
     Click on "OK"