Marsh & Elliott 2008
Catherine Marsh & Jane Elliott
Exploring Data
(2nd edition, Polity Press, 2008, with associated website and data sets )
Jane Elliott has just been appointed Chief Executive of the (UK) Economic and Social Research Council, so a planned new edition has been delayed, possibly forever. When I have time I'll replicate some examples using syntax rather than the GUI in SPSS 22 or later: on this site they will also be in colour.
Chapter 1 is available as a free pdf download. The rest of the book includes the following:
Part I Single Variables
1 Distributions and Variables
2 Numerical Summaries of Level and Spread
3 Scaling and Standardizing
4 Inequality
5 Smoothing Time Series
Part II Relationships between Two Variables
6 Percentage Tables
7 Analysing Contingency Tables
8 Handling Several Batches
9 Scatterplots and Resistant Lines
10 Transformations
Part III Introducing a Third Variable
11 Causal Explanations
12 Three-Variable Contingency Tables and Beyond
13 Longitudinal Data
This is really a book about the process and logic of survey analysis rather than a course in SPSS, but it makes intensive use of SPSS (release 13) to analyse data from major British government surveys such as the General Household Survey (2005), the National Child Development Survey, the New Earnings Survey and the British Crime Survey. It follows a logical progression from analysing one variable, moves on to two variables and then to three (many) variables. All statistical procedures are preceded by an explanation of the initial research problem and why each procedure and/or test is appropriate, before presenting SPSS commands and output. It is particularly good on causal explanations.
It is included here not only because it's an excellent book, but also because I appointed Cathie Marsh to her first research post in 1974 as a trainee in the SSRC Survey Unit (where she learned SPSS working on the Quality of Life in Britain and other surveys). When SSRC closed the unit in 1976, she became a Lecturer in Sociology at Social and Political Siences (SPS) Cambridge and in 1990 moved to Manchester where she was awarded a personal Chair in Sociology and was instrumental in setting up up the Centre for Census and Survey Research. She died on 1 Jan 1993, aged 41, and the Centre is now named after her.
Exploring Data
(2nd edition, Polity Press, 2008, with associated website and data sets )
Jane Elliott has just been appointed Chief Executive of the (UK) Economic and Social Research Council, so a planned new edition has been delayed, possibly forever. When I have time I'll replicate some examples using syntax rather than the GUI in SPSS 22 or later: on this site they will also be in colour.
Chapter 1 is available as a free pdf download. The rest of the book includes the following:
Part I Single Variables
1 Distributions and Variables
2 Numerical Summaries of Level and Spread
3 Scaling and Standardizing
4 Inequality
5 Smoothing Time Series
Part II Relationships between Two Variables
6 Percentage Tables
7 Analysing Contingency Tables
8 Handling Several Batches
9 Scatterplots and Resistant Lines
10 Transformations
Part III Introducing a Third Variable
11 Causal Explanations
12 Three-Variable Contingency Tables and Beyond
13 Longitudinal Data
This is really a book about the process and logic of survey analysis rather than a course in SPSS, but it makes intensive use of SPSS (release 13) to analyse data from major British government surveys such as the General Household Survey (2005), the National Child Development Survey, the New Earnings Survey and the British Crime Survey. It follows a logical progression from analysing one variable, moves on to two variables and then to three (many) variables. All statistical procedures are preceded by an explanation of the initial research problem and why each procedure and/or test is appropriate, before presenting SPSS commands and output. It is particularly good on causal explanations.
It is included here not only because it's an excellent book, but also because I appointed Cathie Marsh to her first research post in 1974 as a trainee in the SSRC Survey Unit (where she learned SPSS working on the Quality of Life in Britain and other surveys). When SSRC closed the unit in 1976, she became a Lecturer in Sociology at Social and Political Siences (SPS) Cambridge and in 1990 moved to Manchester where she was awarded a personal Chair in Sociology and was instrumental in setting up up the Centre for Census and Survey Research. She died on 1 Jan 1993, aged 41, and the Centre is now named after her.