Contructs for assessing Student Leadership

[Juanito Talili]

Hi All,
 
Can someone give suggestions on the constructs/domains that are used to assess student leadership.
 
Thank you in advance.
Juanito


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[Max Bell-2]

Hello everybody,

I would like know more about the possibilities of using MS Access data
in SPSS. I have a lot of syntaxes in SPSS and until now my data were
stored in SPSS-sav-files. Pretty soon my data wil be moved to MS Access
and I'm looking for information, books, websites, tips to keep on using
SPSS for tables and graphs.

What is the best way:
- start SPSS and read the data form Access and create the required
output OR
- let Access operate SPSS in order to get the required output.

Thank you.

Max

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[Frans Marcelissen]

Hello Max,
Using odbc and sql you can read access data files as if they were spss data
files. Converting is not necessary. I would never try to use access to
operate spss (that sounds rather complicated).
Frans

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Onderwerp: Use MS Access data in SPSS

Hello everybody,

I would like know more about the possibilities of using MS Access data in
SPSS. I have a lot of syntaxes in SPSS and until now my data were stored in
SPSS-sav-files. Pretty soon my data wil be moved to MS Access and I'm
looking for information, books, websites, tips to keep on using SPSS for
tables and graphs.

What is the best way:
- start SPSS and read the data form Access and create the required output OR
- let Access operate SPSS in order to get the required output.

Thank you.

Max

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[Eero Olli]

>Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:20:32 +0100
>From: Max Bell <[hidden email]>
>Subject: Use MS Access data in SPSS
>
>Hello everybody,
>I would like know more about the possibilities of using MS Access data
in SPSS. I have a lot of syntaxes in SPSS and until now my data were
stored in SPSS-sav-files. Pretty soon my data wil be moved to MS Access
and I'm looking for information, books, websites, tips to keep on using
SPSS for tables and graphs.
>
>What is the best way:
>- start SPSS and read the data form Access and create the required
output OR
>- let Access operate SPSS in order to get the required output.
 
Hello Max,
 
Your first suggestion is clearly preferable as it is easy to read ACCESS
data with SPSS.  However, I do not quite understand why you want to
convert .sav files to .mdb files. I assume you must have your reasons.
 
I use both ACCESS and SPSS v15. They work well together.  
* ACCESS is nice for live data, because it allows others to connect to
the database and add data, or make limited updates, while I use SPSS to
do analysis of the data.  I would never allow any users to touch one of
my SPSS datafiles.   For example, our office uses a ACCESS database for
a phonelog. A few times a year I run a script that reads the data to
SPSS and makes a pile of tables and figures.
* ACCESS is better for creating nice layout for Reports that present
cases. That is, if you want to present a lot of the data you have as it
is, but just sorted in a nice way with a few simple things added.  I run
for example a "Best Practices" database, and it is easier to make
professional layout for reports that present lists of best practices
with ACCESS than with SPSS.
* ACCESS is seems to be faster (but less flexible) for joining tables
using views (or SQL queries) than SPSS is for matching datafiles.  So if
you have many tables in ACCESS that relate to each other, use views in
ACCESS to join them first to a single flat file, rather than importing
them table by table to SPSS for matching.  
* For everything else I prefer SPSS only (or perhaps with a proper SQL
database).
 
One way to use ACCESS and SPSS together:
1) Create a syntax file with the help of the Database Connectivity
Wisard. Paste and clean up a little bit.
2) Add to this syntax file variable labels, variable formats, and do
some necessary recoding. Change the variable names so that they fit your
old scripts.  Time and date variables often need some fixing to get nice
results.
3) Optionally: Save a copy of the outfile.  If the database is alive,
you do not even need to save your new datafile. I prefer to save a copy
with a date in the filename, (it is nice to be able to reproduce tables
for a particular date in the past).  I do much of my analysis on the
"live" datafile. The saved file is just for rerunning analyses to check
if my new and "improved" recodings give same results as the old ones.
Nevertheless, I always use a saved copy of the datafile used to make
tables and figures for a publication for the sake of consistency.
4) Run your old scripts .
 
Best,
Eero
 
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the Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombud
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[Jason Burke]

There is a great coverage on this topic in Chapter 9 of the
Programming and Data Management for SPSS Statistics 17.0 book, which
you can download in a PDF format from:

http://www.spss.com/statistics/base/data_management_book.htm

Cheers,


Jason

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Eero Olli <[hidden email]> wrote:

>>Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:20:32 +0100
>>From: Max Bell <[hidden email]>
>>Subject: Use MS Access data in SPSS
>>
>>Hello everybody,
>>I would like know more about the possibilities of using MS Access data
> in SPSS. I have a lot of syntaxes in SPSS and until now my data were
> stored in SPSS-sav-files. Pretty soon my data wil be moved to MS Access
> and I'm looking for information, books, websites, tips to keep on using
> SPSS for tables and graphs.
>>
>>What is the best way:
>>- start SPSS and read the data form Access and create the required
> output OR
>>- let Access operate SPSS in order to get the required output.
>
> Hello Max,
>
> Your first suggestion is clearly preferable as it is easy to read ACCESS
> data with SPSS.  However, I do not quite understand why you want to
> convert .sav files to .mdb files. I assume you must have your reasons.
>
> I use both ACCESS and SPSS v15. They work well together.
> * ACCESS is nice for live data, because it allows others to connect to
> the database and add data, or make limited updates, while I use SPSS to
> do analysis of the data.  I would never allow any users to touch one of
> my SPSS datafiles.   For example, our office uses a ACCESS database for
> a phonelog. A few times a year I run a script that reads the data to
> SPSS and makes a pile of tables and figures.
> * ACCESS is better for creating nice layout for Reports that present
> cases. That is, if you want to present a lot of the data you have as it
> is, but just sorted in a nice way with a few simple things added.  I run
> for example a "Best Practices" database, and it is easier to make
> professional layout for reports that present lists of best practices
> with ACCESS than with SPSS.
> * ACCESS is seems to be faster (but less flexible) for joining tables
> using views (or SQL queries) than SPSS is for matching datafiles.  So if
> you have many tables in ACCESS that relate to each other, use views in
> ACCESS to join them first to a single flat file, rather than importing
> them table by table to SPSS for matching.
> * For everything else I prefer SPSS only (or perhaps with a proper SQL
> database).
>
> One way to use ACCESS and SPSS together:
> 1) Create a syntax file with the help of the Database Connectivity
> Wisard. Paste and clean up a little bit.
> 2) Add to this syntax file variable labels, variable formats, and do
> some necessary recoding. Change the variable names so that they fit your
> old scripts.  Time and date variables often need some fixing to get nice
> results.
> 3) Optionally: Save a copy of the outfile.  If the database is alive,
> you do not even need to save your new datafile. I prefer to save a copy
> with a date in the filename, (it is nice to be able to reproduce tables
> for a particular date in the past).  I do much of my analysis on the
> "live" datafile. The saved file is just for rerunning analyses to check
> if my new and "improved" recodings give same results as the old ones.
> Nevertheless, I always use a saved copy of the datafile used to make
> tables and figures for a publication for the sake of consistency.
> 4) Run your old scripts .
>
> Best,
> Eero
>
> ________________________________________
> Eero Olli
> Advisor
> the Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombud
> [hidden email]                   [phone]
> POB 8048 Dep,     N-0031 Oslo,      Norway
>
>
>
>
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