How to use SPSS/Descriptives/Advanced

Descriptive & Graphical Exercise Using SPSS

 * Assumed knowledge: Allen and Bennett Chapter 3: Summarising and displaying data (pp. 19-32)
 * Download and open the datafile qfsall.sav (collected using the Quick Fun Survey (html))
 * Conduct the univariate and bivariate descriptive and graphical analyses outlined below.
 * You can also download demonstration syntax and output files:
 * Descriptives.sps
 * Descriptives.spo

Univariate
Determine the level of measurement and obtain appropriate univariate descriptives and graphs to depict the nature of responses to each of the following variables:
 * 1) a8 (What is your favourite season?)
 * 2) b2 (Do you snore?)
 * 3) b4 (Do you believe in God?)
 * 4) b9 (At what age do you think you will die?)
 * 5) b13 (Femininity-Masculinity)

Statistically, you may consider using:
 * 1) frequency / % / mode
 * 2) median
 * 3) mean, SD, skewness, kurtosis

Graphically, you may consider using:
 * 1) bar graph
 * 2) pie chart
 * 3) stem and leaf plot
 * 4) boxplot
 * 5) histogram
 * 6) line graph
 * 7) error bar

Bivariate
Determine the level of measurement and examine bivariate distributions for the following relationships: (Note that unless you are an experienced statistician you probably should conduct univariate descriptives and graphs for each variable before using them in bivariate and multivariate analyses.)


 * 1) a1 (Gender) and a4 (Favourite colour) (nominal by nominal)
 * 2) crosstabs
 * 3) clustered bar graph
 * 4) b10 (Psychology student status) and b7 (Exercise) (nominal by ratio)
 * 5) means table
 * 6) bar graph (means)
 * 7) b14 (Physical health) and b15 (Mental health) (interval by interval)
 * 8) correlation
 * 9) scatterplot - edit by going into chart editor, double-clicking on a data point and changing to bins to represent multiple data points.
 * 10) b7 (Exercise) and b9 (At what age do you think you will die?) (ratio by ratio)
 * 11) correlation
 * 12) scatterplot