Exercise 1

English Proficiency

Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree

SD D N A SA
1 2 3 4 5

Respondent Age Sex Race Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5

1. 32 Female Malay 4 3 3 1 2
2. 21 Female Indian 5 1 4 4 3
3. 46 Male Malay 4 2 2 1 4
4. 17 Female Malay 3 2 4 5 3
5. 20 Male Iban 3 5 2 3 3
6. 52 Male Chinese 3 2 4 3 4
7. 27 Male Iban 1 3 1 2 2
8. 18 Female Indian 4 3 3 5 4
9. 25 Female Iban 3 4 4 5 3
10. 39 Male Chinese 5 5 5 2 3
11. 42 Female Chinese 2 1 2 3 1
12. 21 Male Malay 1 3 3 2 1
13. 55 Female Malay 4 2 4 4 3
14. 40 Female Iban 5 1 3 4 3
15. 26 Female Malay 1 3 3 1 2
16. 23 Male Iban 4 3 5 3 4
17. 58 Male Indian 2 4 3 2 2
18. 47 Female Malay 3 2 4 3 1
19. 32 Male Chinese 3 3 5 3 4
20. 22 Male Malay 5 1 4 4 5

Q1 - I can listen to English attentively for comprehension and respond appropriately.

Q2 - I have difficulty in speaking English accurately, fluently, confidently and appropriately in
variety of contexts.
Q3 - I can read in English fluently and efficiently.
Q4 - I can use correct spelling, punctuation and paragraphing in English.
Q5 - I can use the correct grammatical and idiomatic forms of English.
1. Answer the questions below:

a. Insert the data into SPSS.

b. Recode the necessary sub-question (s).
c. Categorize the age of respondent into 3 age groups.
d. Calculate the overall mean.

2. The following is the data set for age obtained from 20 samples. Please recode it into 5 age groups.

21 38 13 45 57 33 23 12 39 50
24 39 19 40 32 48 31 19 35 57

3. The data below is obtained from one section of a questionnaire that investigate the level of satisfaction of
students with services in CAIS. The variable is “ Book Collection” = BC

X1 = The collection of books in CAIS is good

X2 = The collection of books in CAIS is up to date
X3 = Many of the books are lost
X4 = The books are well arranged
X5 = Many of the books are torn and dirty
X6 = Books not found can be easily obtained through interlibrary loan

VS S N DS VDS Total Sample

“BC”
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
X1 4 5 3 3 5 20
X2 2 4 4 3 7 20
X3 1 2 5 2 10 20
X4 4 4 2 3 7 20
X5 2 5 3 5 5 20
X6 6 4 2 6 2 20

(1) – Very satisfied (5) = Very Dissatisfied

a) Computing the overall mean and standard deviation from the data set above.
b) Identify which of the sub question (X1, X2,……) needs to be recoded.