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Starting SPSS
Dates: 16th September 2009, 29th March 2010
Duration: 1 day (10am — 4:30pm)
Level: Introductory
Course Fee: £175 (£125 for those from educational institutions)
CCSR offer 5 free places to research staff and students within the Faculty of Humanities.
Course Leader:
Dr Jo Wathan
Course Requirements:
No previous experience of data analysis is assumed, however participants should be familiar with working in the Windows environment.
Course Summary
The course provides a thorough introduction to SPSS for Windows (Version 16), a market leading software package for survey data analysis. The course includes a strong practical element in which participants learn and gain experience under the guidance of course tutors.
Course Objectives
On completing the course, participants will have covered the following:
- How to open and explore datasets in the SPSS environment using the Windows interface
- Key procedures for data manipulation including sub-setting and variable recoding
- Procedures for producing simple descriptive statistics for all or subsets of your cases
- Procedures for producing graphical output
Target Audience
The course is designed for those without previous experience of working with individual level survey data. It provides a good foundation for those wanting to go on and develop skills in exploratory and more advanced analysis of survey datasets (it is recommended for those going on to take the CCSR courses Introduction to Data Analysis 1 and 2)
Preliminary Reading
None required