Practical Session - Data Analysis Using SPSS and

Interpretation of Findings – Part 2

Pre-workshop tasks:

Download SPSS on your laptop OR access SPSS online via Appsanywhere https://appsanywhere.shu.ac.uk/

Download the SPSS booklet & practice data from Blackboard (if you haven’t)
• Get comfortable with SPSS by:
o Looking at pages 1-28 in the SPSS booklet and practising the exercises

o Watching all SPSS videos on Blackboard (see SPSS folder under “learning materials”)

o Clicking on module reading list on Blackboard, or library website to get an e-Book of Julie Pallant’s book “Pallant, J.
(2020). SPSS survival manual: a step by step guide to data analysis using the SPSS program. (7th ed). Berkshire: Mc-
Graw-Hill”.

https://shu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99714294702501&context=L&vid=44SHU_INST:44SHU_VU1&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&isFrbr=true&t
ab=Everything&query=any,contains,julie%20pallant&sortby=date_d&facet=frbrgroupid,include,9083212502105353820&mode=Basic&offset=0

** This Julie Pallant’s book shows how to analyse data & interpret results. Use the index at the end of the book to locate any test you want to conduct.
You have already done some work on SPSS during FOE A module.
Consider revising slides/materials from your FOE A seminar 3 (held
on 1st Nov 2023) and seminar 4 (held on 22nd Nov 2023). You will use
the same SPSS data
 Goals for the Assessment Workshop

 Get familiar with some SPSS functions that you will be using to transform your data:

Recode

Reverse coding

Computing new variables

Why are the assessment workshop tasks important?

 The FOE B module assessment requires you to collect data

using Qualtrics and to analyse data using SPSS

 You will conduct some of these analyses for your assignment

Use the SPSS practice data available on Blackboard (“RS
student survey.sav”) to do the following ..............
Transform - recode

Where you can

• Recode your data (i.e. recode the response/answer to a question)
 For example: 1 = tall , 2 = taller, 3 = tallest recoded as 1 = tallest, 2 = taller, 3 = tall
 For example: 1 = strongly agree, 2=agree, 3=unsure, 4=disagree, 5=strongly disagree
recoded/recategorised as 1=agree, 2=unsure, 3=disagree
Transform – compute variable

Where you can

• Compute (i.e. create) new variables
• For example: compute the total score of a health scale : Q1 + Q2 + Q3 +Q4 + Q5 = total
Use the SPSS practice data (“RS student survey.sav”)
to complete the following tasks....................
Recode
 Recode to ……………
 To change the sequence of the responses/answers (i.e. reverse coding)
 e.g : 1 = tall , 2 = taller, 3 = tallest recoded as 1 = tallest, 2 = taller, 3 = tall

 To reduce/collapse the number of categories of the responses

 e.g.: 1 = strongly agree, 2=agree, 3=unsure, 4=disagree, 5=strongly disagree recoded as 1=agree,
2=unsure, 3=disagree

 To categorise a continuous variable (i.e. collapse a continuous variable into groups)

 E.g. : changing age from individual numbers to age-groups 18-24, 25-34, 35 – 44, etc

Exercises:

Variable: “Given your age and height, would you say that you are…” (question no. 49 “Ageheight”)
Action required: Reverse code the responses

Variable: “The Police do a great job in Sheffield city centre” (question no. 3 “Goodpol”)
Action required: reduce the responses to only 3 categories - agree, unsure, disagree

Variable: “Age” (question no. 57 “Age”)

Action required: collapse/categorise age into 2 age-groups
 Additional material for recoding variables

 Chapter 8, pages 85 – 101 of Julie Pallant’s book

Pallant, J. (2020). SPSS survival manual: a step by step guide to data analysis using the SPSS program. (7th ed).
Berkshire: Mc-Graw-Hill”.

 SPSS Refresher videos

 SPSS – reverse coding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJisOMvY54
 SPSS – recoding groups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45zZPVDOPgc
 SPSS – recoding / categorising a continuous variable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAJEHGlQZJ8
 SPSS – recoding from continuous to categorical variable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0kc87Q-j94
Compute variable
 Compute to ………….
Create new variables
For example: compute total score for a health scale : Q1 + Q2 + Q3 +Q4 + Q5 = total

Exercise 1:
 Derive a new scale called “Victim Scale” using victim-related variables from item no. 22 (“Victmugg”) to item no. 27
(“Victburg”).
 Compute the total score
 What is the mean total score?
 Collapse/categorise the total score into three categories – low, moderate, high

Exercise 2:
 Derive a new scale called “Worry Scale” using worry-related variables from item no. 13 (“Homebrok”) to item no.
19 (“Physskin”).
 Compute the total score
 What is the mean total score?
 Collapse/categorise the total score into three categories – low, moderate, high
Additional material for computing new variables

 Chapter 8, pages 87 – 90 of Julie Pallant’s book

Pallant, J. (2020). SPSS survival manual: a step by step guide to data analysis using the SPSS program.
(7th ed). Berkshire: Mc-Graw-Hill”.

 SPSS Refresher videos

 SPSS – compute total score https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtue2c7O8VA
 SPSS – recoding / categorising a continuous variable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAJEHGlQZJ8
 SPSS – recoding from continuous to categorical variable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0kc87Q-j94
Let’s Talk About Study Week Tasks – practising
SPSS data analysis using your own data that you
collected during Assessment Workshop 1 on
Qualtrics