Basic SPSS Training for Researchers

DAY 1: BASICS OF SPSS & PRESENTINGDATA IN SPSS CUSTOM TABLES

I. INTRODUCTION TO SPSS WINDOWS

II. SOURCES AND ORGANIZATION OF DATA

III. LEVEL OF MEASUREMENT OF DATA

IV. DATA ENCODING IN SPSS

V. WORKING WITH MULTIPLE DATA SETS

VI. ACCESSING OF DATA FROM DIFFERENT FILE FORMATS

VII. RUNNING A FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION TABLE

VIII. CREATING AND EDITING CHARTS

IX. EDITING OF OUTPUTS

X. HANDLING MULTIPLE RESPONSE SETS

XI. COMBINING TABLES

A. STACKING

B. NESTING

C. CROSSTABULATION

D. LAYERING

E. SIMILAR CATEGORIES

XII. WORKING WITH SYNTAX

DAY 2: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USING SPSS

I. HANDLING CATEGORICAL DATA

A. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION

B. CHARTS

II. HANDLING MULTIPLE CATEGORICAL DATA

A. CROSSTABULATION

B. TEST OF INDEPENDENCE

III. HANDLING SCALE DATA

A. EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS

B. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

IV. HANDLING CATEGORICAL AND SCALE DATA

A. COMPARISON OF MEANS USING SPSS STATISTICS BASE

B. COMPARISON OF MEANS USING SPSS CUSTOM TABLES

V. HANDLING MULTIPLE SCALE DATA

A. CHECKING OF RELATIONSHIP USING GRAPHS

B. STRENGTH AND DIRECTION OF RELATIONSHIP

C. LINEAR REGRESSION