Re: DATA LIST FILE Command (2)

[John F Hall]

Zachary

 

Further to my earlier mail, there's also a fully worked DATA LIST exercise on my website using PASW 18 to read in two variables from a 23-record external data file and perform simple univariate analysis.  The syntax will work on any version of SPSS, but if you're using 18  make sure the primes for the external file are typed in direct, or copied from notepad, not from Word  (PASW turns them into curly quotes and this causes an error)

 

Page http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/block-2-analysing-one-variable.html has hyperlinks links to the tutorial (Item 2.2.1: Word doc, 11 pages) using the 1986 British Social Attitudes survey as the example, together with links to a homework exercise (item 2.2.1.2) using the 1989 survey together with a crib (item 2.2.1.3) 

 

Hope this helps

 

John Hall