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Basic Data Anylysis Using SPSS

The document provides an overview of basic SPSS analyses, including Frequencies, Descriptives, and Linear Regression. It outlines steps to open sample data, perform frequency analysis, and create descriptive statistics and regression models. Additionally, it includes practice exercises for applying these analyses to specific variables.

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Basic Data Anylysis Using SPSS

The document provides an overview of basic SPSS analyses, including Frequencies, Descriptives, and Linear Regression. It outlines steps to open sample data, perform frequency analysis, and create descriptive statistics and regression models. Additionally, it includes practice exercises for applying these analyses to specific variables.

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The basic analysis

The basic analysis of SPSS that will be


introduced in this class
⚫ Frequencies
⚫ This analysis produces frequency tables showing
frequency counts and percentages of the values of
individual variables.

⚫ Descriptives
⚫ This analysis shows the maximum, minimum,
mean, and standard deviation of the variables

⚫ Linear regression analysis


⚫ Linear Regression estimates the coefficients of the
linear equation
Opening the sample data
⚫ Open ‘Employee data.sav’ from the SPSS
⚫ Go to “File,” “Open,” and Click Data
Opening the sample data
⚫ Go to Program Files,” “SPSSInc,” “SPSS16,” and
“Samples” folder.
⚫ Open “Employee Data.sav” file
Frequencies
⚫ Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then
click ‘Frequencies’
Frequencies
⚫ Click gender and put it into the variable box.
⚫ Click ‘Charts.’
⚫ Then click ‘Bar charts’ and click ‘Continue.’

Click Click
Frequencies
⚫ Finally Click OK in the Frequencies box.

Click
Practice 4
⚫ Do a frequency analysis on the
variable “minority”

⚫ Create pie charts for it


Answer

Click
Descriptives
⚫ Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then
click ‘Descriptives…’
⚫ Click ‘Educational level’ and ‘Beginning
Salary,’ and put it into the variable box.
⚫ Click Options

Click
Descriptives
⚫ The options allows you to analyze other
descriptive statistics besides the mean and Std.
⚫ Click ‘variance’ and ‘kurtosis’
⚫ Finally click ‘Continue’

Click

Click
Descriptives
⚫ Finally Click OK in the Descriptives box. You will
be able to see the result of the analysis.
Regression Analysis
⚫ Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Regression,’ then click
‘Linear’ from the main menu.
Regression Analysis
⚫ For example let’s analyze the model
⚫ Put ‘Beginning Salary’ as Dependent and ‘Educational Level’ as
Independent.

Click
Click
Regression Analysis
⚫ Clicking OK gives the result
Plotting the regression line
⚫ Click ‘Graphs,’ ‘Legacy Dialogs,’
‘Interactive,’ and ‘Scatterplot’ from the
main menu.
Plotting the regression line
⚫ Drag ‘Current Salary’ into the vertical axis box
and ‘Beginning Salary’ in the horizontal axis box.
⚫ Click ‘Fit’ bar. Make sure the Method is
regression in the Fit box. Then click ‘OK’.

Set this to
Click
Regression!
Practice 5
⚫ Find out whether or not the previous experience
of workers has any affect on their beginning
salary?
⚫ Take the variable “salbegin,” and “prevexp” as
dependent and independent variables
respectively.

⚫ Plot the regression line for the above analysis


using the “scatter plot” menu.
Answer

Click
Click on the “fit” tab to make
sure the method is regression

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