Republic of the Philippines

BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ACCOUNTANCY BUSINESS, ECONOMICS
AND INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT

DESCRIPTIVE STATISTIC
IBM SPSS STATISTIC EXERCISE
STS 301
By: De Castro, Roseshel
Untalan, Lezyl F.

2.1 The Data: FREQUENCY

For the values of gender. Enter “1” in the dialog box of the value and “male” in the label, then
click add. Repeat the same steps, enter “2” and “female” in the dialog box of value and label
respectively. Then, click ok.

For the values of college. Enter “1” in the dialog box of the value and “at home” in the label,
then click add. Repeat the same steps, enter “2” and “away” in the dialog box of value and label
respectively. Then, click ok.
 To run the frequencies procedure select Analyze then click Descriptive Statistics and under of
that click Frequencies from the drop-down menu.

A Frequencies dialog box will appear listing our variables in the pane on the left. In this box, we
select which variables we want to analyze. This will be done by highlighting the desired variables on the
left, then moving them into the Variable(s) pane on the right.
 Now that we have selected this variable, we need to move it into the Variable(s) choice pane on
the right. To move this variable, click the arrow key in the middle of the dialog box.

Repeat the step that will occur. Click OK.

 The results of this procedure will now appear in an SPSS Output Viewer window.

The first information in the output is the Statistics table. This table displays how many valid
cases (N) were processed and how many cases had missing values for each of our variables. Since we
have no missing values, the number of valid cases is the full 10 students for both variables.

The second information, the first column lists the labels we assigned to the two levels of this
variable 1.00 “male” and 2.00 “female”. The Frequency column displays the frequency of each score in
this case, category. This shows that of the ten students, five were women and five were men. These
frequencies are converted to percentages in the Percent column 50% men and 50% women. Note the
Valid Percent column shows the same values. These would be different if we had missing data, this
column adjusts the percentages based on missing values.

2. 1 THE DATA: MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY AND VARIABLITY

 The frequencies box shows the variables of the data. Now that we have selected this variable,
we need to move it into the Variable(s) choice pane on the right. To move this variable, click the arrow
key in the middle of the dialog box. Then mathexam will be move into the right pane.

In the frequencies box select mathexam and satquant then click the right arrow to transfer the
selected data from the column to the variable(s) box. This step will ensure that the selected variable or
the variables that is under the Variable(s) is the data that need to be measured.
 Click the Statistics button then frequencies to show different measurements that can be used for
analyzing the data. Under Frequencies Statistic we have 4 categories which are Percentile Value
(includes Quartiles, Cut points for equal group and percentile), Central Tendency (Mean, Median, Mode
and Sum), Dispersion (Standard Deviation, Variance, Range, Minimum, Maximum and SE mean) and
Distribution (Skewness and Kurtosis).
 In this step we should select or check the corresponding box for the measurement that we
would be needing for the analysis. Under Central Tendency put a check the Mean, Median and Mode.
Under Dispersion put a check the Standard Deviation, Variance, Range, Minimum and Maximum. Then
click continue to proceed for the next step.

In the frequencies dialogue box, the box beside the Display frequency table should be
unchecked to turn off this option. The box should show empty to indicate that frequency tables will not
be produced for the variables mathexam and satquant. And click OK to finish this step.
 The Statistics table displays the results of the Frequencies procedure for the continuous
variables mathexam and satquant. The Mean and standard deviation for mathexam is 28.6000 and
9.38320, and for satquant is 520.0000 and 58.30952 respectively. The minimum and maximum values
indicate the lowest and highest values in the data set, respectively, and are helpful for ensuring that all
the data are within the possible range of values. The minimum and maximum values are 15.00 and
44.00 for mathexam and 450.00 and 600.00 for satquant show that there were no out-of-range values
for either variable.

2.1 THE DATA: ANALYSIS OF GROUPS USING THE MEANS PROCEDURE

 The Means procedure is useful for obtaining descriptive statistic separately for each of a variable
of interest. To start the procedure, select Analyze, Click Compare means under of that select Mean on
the selection box.

The Means dialog box opens that shows all the variables in the first column and have 2 more
box which are Dependent List and Independent List.
 Satquant is the selected in the left pane, then click the arrow above to move satquant to
Dependent list.

Select the college variable from the left pane then click the lower right-arrow to transfer the
variable from the left pane to the Independent List box. Then click OK.
 The Means: Options dialog box will appear. The first column shows different options or
measurements for the data and the second column shows the cell statistics for the data. As to the Mean
and Standard deviation is already under the cell statistics already, leave the default option in place. Then
click continue and click ok to finish.
The above figure shows the Means procedure of Satquant by College that had been conducted as a
third analysis. This shows the Means of satquant for the different college groups. The Data above shows
Case Processing Summary and report for the Variables Satquant and College.

The Case Processing Summary table indicates the number of observations included in the
analysis (10), the number of observations excluded (0), and the total number of observations in the data
(10). The table indicated that all 10 participants were included in the analysis.

The Report table shows the mean, sample size (N), and the standard deviation for the college
groups home, away and total. Inspecting the means for the two groups that those who attended college
at home had a higher mean satquant score (545.0000) than those who attended college away
(482.5000). Of the 10 students, 6 attended college at home and 4 attended college away. Those who
stayed at home had satquant scores that were slightly more variable than those attended college away.
The mean satquant score for the entire sample (which is total) was 520.0000 with a standard deviation
of 58.30952.

To do the Analysis of Groups Using the Means Procedure, we can perform the Means procedure
using the layered option. We should start by activating the Data View.
 On the Data View click Analyze, under of that click Compare Means, then click Means. This step
is a repeat of the earlier procedure but this time we can use three variables.

On this step repeat the process we did earlier by putting the satquant variable under the
Dependent List and Select College Variable under Independent List. The Dialogue box have a section
that says Layer 1 of 1. This indicates that we have one layer of the Variable in the Independent List. To
add another Layer, click the next button and it will show an empty box of Independent List and Layer 2
of 2 will be seen.

To put the Gender variable in the Independent Box we should repeat the process that we did
earlier for the College Variable. Select the Gender variable then click the lower right-arrow to transfer
the Variable then click Ok to Finish the step.

Means Procedure - Satquant by College Layered by Gender

 The result for the last analysis is presented above.

The Case Processing Summary table indicates the number of observations included in the
analysis (10), the number of observations excluded (0) and the total number observation in the data set
(10).

The Report table displays the mean, sample size (N), and standard deviation on Satquant
variable for college layered by Gender. The first section of the table displays the mean and the standard
deviation for males and females who attended college at home. The second section of the table displays
the mean and standard deviation for males and females who attend college away from home. Finally,
the last section of the table displays the mean standard deviation for males and females for home and
away combines.

All of the steps and other description are done by Miss Lezyl Untalan and I just contributed in the
description part. I wasn’t able to install the Installer as to my Laptop have not enough resources to download and
run the SPSS application.

-Roseshel S. De Castro