SPSSX Discussion - New SPSS tutorials on conditional frequencies

New SPSS tutorials on conditional frequencies

Posted by John F Hall on Oct 29, 2011; 9:17am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/New-SPSS-tutorials-on-conditional-frequencies-tp4948369.html

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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