STATISTICAL PACKAGE FOR SOCIAL Group 5

SCIENCES
STATISTICAL PACKAGE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES (SPSS)

it is used by researchers to perform statistical analysis. As

the name suggests, SPSS statistics software is used to
perform only statistical operations.
SPSS software is used to perform quantitative analysis
and is used as a complete statistical package that is based
on a point and click interface. This software has been
widely used by researchers to perform quantitative
analysis since its development in the 1960s by Norman H.
Nie, in collaboration with C. Hadlai Hull and Dale Bent.
SPSS software can read and write data from other
statistical packages, databases, and spreadsheets. When
entering data into the software, one has to click on
“variable view.” The variable view enables the user to
customize it by data type and consists of the following
headings: Name, Type, Width, Decimals, Label, Values,
Missing, Columns, Align, and Measures. These headings
enable the user to characterize the data.
HOW TO ENTER DATA INTO SPSS
* Entering data into SPSS file
* scenario: 10 people were picked as a sample
and were asked their age as members of the gym
* Go in the data view page and type the age of
the people . Ex.20 to 65
Type the numbers in the next column.
HOW DO YOU NAME THE VARIABLE
Click on the variable tab
In the first column there is a tab : variableooo
Click on variable and enter age
Then proceed the decimals from 2 to zero .

Changing the variable0001 to age

Data view should look like this