NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY

ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

BUSINESS STATISTICS

Tutorials 1

This tutorial will give you experience in identifying variables and their types. This also gets you
acquainted with SPSS.

Question 1

Provide two examples each of the nominal, ordinal, discrete, and continuous data.

Question 2

For each of the following examples of data, determine the types:

1. The size of soft drink (small, medium, or large) ordered by KFC’s customers
2. The number of Toyotas produced monthly by Toyotas company
3. The marks achieved by the students in a statistics course final exam (round number)
4. Income of staffs in company A
5. Weights of boxes produced by assembly line Y
6. The rank of football teams in the leagues
7. The occupation of parents of students in class B
8. The age of female students in the class
9. Firm ownership types
10. Account balance of a sample of customers of a bank

Question 3

Import the file "Assignment 1 Data Set.xls" from Excel into SPSS. Use the information provided
below to set up an SPSS data file using this Excel data. Save the SPSS file you create under the
filename "ASSIGN1.sav" As a frame of reference, treat this data as if it has been gathered using
a questionnaire that was completed by 15 participants. The variable in Column 1 is the age of
the participant in years. The variable in Column 2 is the category of income selected by the
participant. Income categories are as follows: (a) a "1" indicates that the participant makes less
than $25,000 per year, (b) a "2" indicates that the participant makes $25,000 to $49,999 per year,
(c) a "3" indicates that the participant makes $50,000 to $74,999 per year, and (d) a "4" indicates
that the participant makes $75,000 per year or more. Finally, the variable in column 3 is the
participant's gender. A "1" indicates that the participant is male, and a "2" indicates that the
participant is female. Be sure to define the following for this data file: (a) variable name, (b)
width, (c) decimals, (d) values, and (e) measure.