Block 2: Analysing one variable
[Page last updated 13 October 2016]
Files are in *.pdf format and are optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm.)
They are set in Arial 11-point font and are legible even when printed two pages to a sheet.
The general sequencing principle for exercises will be:
1: Work-through on pre-course questionnaire, plus possible exercise
2: Tutorials and work-through exercises using British Social Attitudes 1986
3: Homework exercises on British Social Attitudes 1989 (with specimen answers) but I'm working on
some from the 2011 wave.
4: Lucky dip: British Social Attitudes, European Social Survey and the NORC General Social Survey
(when I find time to generate some examples)
All raw data, SPSS saved files and key syntax files for the following sections can be found on data sets and documents, but you'll learn a lot more if you do all the exercises yourself instead of slavishly copying them.
2.1: Nominal and ordinal variables
2.2: Interval scale variables
2.3: Data transformations
(Selecting variables for analysis, changing the names of variables, changing the values of variables. Creating new variables from existing ones. Selecting cases for analysis as a transition from analysing one variable to analysing two or more variables.)
Forward to:page: Block 3: Analysing two variables (and sometimes three)
Back to page: Block 1 From questionnaire to SPSS saved file
Back to page: Summary Guide to SPSS Tutorials
Back to page: Detailed guide to SPSS tutorials
Files are in *.pdf format and are optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm.)
They are set in Arial 11-point font and are legible even when printed two pages to a sheet.
The general sequencing principle for exercises will be:
1: Work-through on pre-course questionnaire, plus possible exercise
2: Tutorials and work-through exercises using British Social Attitudes 1986
3: Homework exercises on British Social Attitudes 1989 (with specimen answers) but I'm working on
some from the 2011 wave.
4: Lucky dip: British Social Attitudes, European Social Survey and the NORC General Social Survey
(when I find time to generate some examples)
All raw data, SPSS saved files and key syntax files for the following sections can be found on data sets and documents, but you'll learn a lot more if you do all the exercises yourself instead of slavishly copying them.
2.1: Nominal and ordinal variables
2.2: Interval scale variables
2.3: Data transformations
(Selecting variables for analysis, changing the names of variables, changing the values of variables. Creating new variables from existing ones. Selecting cases for analysis as a transition from analysing one variable to analysing two or more variables.)
Forward to:page: Block 3: Analysing two variables (and sometimes three)
Back to page: Block 1 From questionnaire to SPSS saved file
Back to page: Summary Guide to SPSS Tutorials
Back to page: Detailed guide to SPSS tutorials