New SPSS tutorials on conditional frequencies

[John F Hall]

I have just completed and uploaded a couple of new tutorials to Block 2: Analysing one variable. 

 

http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/block-2-analysing-one-variable.html  

 

They deal conditional frequencies as a transition from analysing one variable to analysing two or more.  

 

http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/9/8/2998485/2.3.1.3__conditional_frequencies_exercise_bsa_1986.pdf

http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/9/8/2998485/2.3.1.4__specimen_answers_for_exercise_2.3.1.3_conditional_frequencies.pdf

 

The specimen answer is a very detailed syntax-based work-through (with some elements replicated using the GUI) to read two variables, sex and income (grouped), from the original raw data of the 1986 British Social Attitudes survey (N = 3100, 23 records) with:

 

Data list

Frequencies (as a check on data values)

Missing values

Variable labels

Display labels

GUI:   Utilities > variables

Value labels

GUI:  to insert value labels via menu

Frequencies

Temporary

Select if                [Women]

Frequencies /barchart

Temporary

Select if                [Men]

Frequencies /barchart

 

Given the differences in income for men and women, users are then asked to think about other variables that might affect income.  The tutorial is a preliminary step towards joint frequency distributions (crosstabs) in Block 3 : Analysing two variables (or more).

 

If any of you have students or trainees, they will hopefully find the new tutorials interesting and valuable learning tools. 

 

 

John F Hall

 

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www.surveyresearch.weebly.com