Mapping in SPSS

[Art Kendall]

What version was it that SPSS dropped the capability of doing maps?

Are there plans to reinstate such capabilities?

What have users done to get basic maps like SPSS used to do? e.g., choropleth (aka patch), point (aka incidence), and gradient (aka contour).

Has anyone done cartograms using SPSS data for the area adjustment?

Has any one tried reading SPSS files into ArcView?  How did it go?


Art Kendall
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[Albert-Jan Roskam]

I didn't even know this was possible in Spss. Must be because we're using an old version. You could use R within Spss to make graphs. I did it once, and I don't recall all the details. I plotted some dep. var by postal code. Useful for inspecting one's data. IIRC, the library was called maptools. See Fig 9 of http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/ . You do need your own .shp file though (but I believe that, for the US, these can be downloaded for free at various places, e.g. CDC).

 

Cheers!!
Albert-Jan

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From: Art Kendall <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Sat, April 2, 2011 2:09:31 PM
Subject: [SPSSX-L] Mapping in SPSS

What version was it that SPSS dropped the capability of doing maps?

Are there plans to reinstate such capabilities?

What have users done to get basic maps like SPSS used to do? e.g., choropleth (aka patch), point (aka incidence), and gradient (aka contour).

Has anyone done cartograms using SPSS data for the area adjustment?

Has any one tried reading SPSS files into ArcView?  How did it go?


Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD

[Victor Kogler]

Art -

I believe the Maps module lasted from Version 10 to Version 14 or 15.  Almost certainly it was not in Ver. 16.  Because the map files had to be in a MapInfo format and there was limited availability of map files and the options for manipulating map attributes in the SPSS output window were pretty limited (as I recall), I eventually bit the bullet and bought ArcView 9.1.

Arcview can read MS Access database tables so I export SPSS data into Access and go from there.

Victor Kogler





On 4/2/2011 05:09, Art Kendall wrote:

What version was it that SPSS dropped the capability of doing maps?

Are there plans to reinstate such capabilities?

What have users done to get basic maps like SPSS used to do? e.g., choropleth (aka patch), point (aka incidence), and gradient (aka contour).

Has anyone done cartograms using SPSS data for the area adjustment?

Has any one tried reading SPSS files into ArcView?  How did it go?


Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD