WORKSHOP

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR EXECUTING RESEARCH

SPSS FOR DATA ANALYSIS – AN INTRODUCTORY MODULE

Instructor: Dr. Jayashree Raveendran, Asst. professor, IPE.

Exercise

1. Create the following variables

1. Swimmer
2. Gender
3. Time

2. Enter the following data:

Swimmer Gender Time
Sara M 29.34
Jason F 30.98
Joanna M 29.78
Donna M 34.16
Phil F 39.66
Hanna M 44.38
Sam F 34.80
Ben F 40.71
Abby M 37.03
Justin F 32.81

3. Save the data.

4. Recode the variable ‘Gender”.

5. Open ‘employee.sav’. Calculate the mean salary.

6. Open ‘Road construction bids.sav’. Compute descriptive statistics for the variable
‘contract cost’.

7. Interpret Skewness and Kurtosis.

8. Generate a histogram fitted with normal curve.