Prices of SPSS in 3rd world countries.

[Art Kendall]

In Statistics Without Borders we are having a discussion of the prices of major packages in third world countries.
Many of these countries wish to develop some statistical expertise.  Generalizing from my experience with nonprofits and ngo's an approach where beginners have access to SPSS for all the time consuming parts of getting the data ready and doing preliminary exploration and then have access to consultants for guidance and more advanced has been very effective.


Who would I contact to find out what those prices might be?

How would I find out the legitimacy of people donating old versions of SPSS that were purchased outright? IIRC up to version 12 one could purchase outright.

Art Kendall
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[Sarraf, Shimon Aaron]

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Thank you,

Shimon Sarraf

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[Art Kendall]

that should have been "more advanced procedures".

Art

On 9/9/2010 12:12 PM, Art Kendall wrote:

In Statistics Without Borders we are having a discussion of the prices of major packages in third world countries.
Many of these countries wish to develop some statistical expertise.  Generalizing from my experience with nonprofits and ngo's an approach where beginners have access to SPSS for all the time consuming parts of getting the data ready and doing preliminary exploration and then have access to consultants for guidance and more advanced has been very effective.


Who would I contact to find out what those prices might be?

How would I find out the legitimacy of people donating old versions of SPSS that were purchased outright? IIRC up to version 12 one could purchase outright.

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

===================== 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

[ajayohri]

Art 

As a stats software user- I found that prices were the same and sometimes higher in India (because there are no resellers)

Again it is true more for SAS than SPSS (things may have changed in the last one year)

In terms of purchasing power parity, a SAS license is at 6000 USD is 6 years per capita GDP for India (which is relatively a much better third world country) while it is 2 months average salary for USA.

For SPSS at 1600 USD - that compares to 1.6 years (in terms of per capita GDP) versus 3 wees average salary

The irony- developing countries have fewer resources so need better decision tools

Ajay

Websites-
http://decisionstats.com
http://dudeofdata.com


Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Art Kendall <[hidden email]> wrote:

In Statistics Without Borders we are having a discussion of the prices of major packages in third world countries.
Many of these countries wish to develop some statistical expertise.  Generalizing from my experience with nonprofits and ngo's an approach where beginners have access to SPSS for all the time consuming parts of getting the data ready and doing preliminary exploration and then have access to consultants for guidance and more advanced has been very effective.


Who would I contact to find out what those prices might be?

How would I find out the legitimacy of people donating old versions of SPSS that were purchased outright? IIRC up to version 12 one could purchase outright.

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