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"