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Learning these, you must clarify two procedures, that is, first, you must know what is going to do (then you know what the SPSS can do), and second is how to do in SPSS
Brief Review
1.Start the SPSS by clicking the icon
2.Data viewer and variable viewer
3.Syntax Editor, two usages--- more complex procedures and save previous procedures
4.Output viewer
5.Importing data from Excel (do)
6.Creating and modifying data
a)creating and defining variables(do)
b)inserting and deleting cases and variables(do)
c)computing new variables(do)
d)recoding variables (do)
e)counting variables(do)
f)sorting cases(do)
g)selecting cases(do)
7.Data manipulation
a)splitting files(do) (split into two or more files in original file)
b)merging files (add new cases and add new variables)
c)aggregating data (collapse all variables into row defined by the collapsed variable)
8.Using Syntax (for advanced user)
Do Exercises:
1.Collecting data from 10 students at class
a)Name
b)Age
c)Gender (1-female, 2-male)
d)Currently working or studying (1-working, 2-studying)
e)Do you like Beijing?(1-like, 2-just so so, 3-don’t like)
2.Enter data in Excel
3.Import the data to SPSS
4.Define the variables
5.Save the data
6.Compute a variable = (age)2
7.Counting gender which is female
8.Inserting a variable for whom you like among the students in your file (1-like, 2-don’t like)
9.Deleting the variable for whom you like
10.Sorting case by the age
11.Recoding the age into two groups (1-less than age 30, 2-30 above) (into different variable first, and then into same variable)
12.Selecting case if the students from north
13.Splitting working status, and then calculating their average ages
14.Collapsing data with regions
15.Asking for same information from an additional student and put the cases into a new file, and then merge the new cases to the old one.
16.Creating a new file with a old variable such as name and a new variable guessed marriage for all the students in your file, and then merge the new file to the old one
