Managing Data With SPSS for Windows
Date:
26/11/2014
Organised by:
University of Surrey, Guildford
Presenter:
Dr. Jane Fielding
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Elizabeth Stutchbury. 01483-689458; e.stutchbury@surrey.ac.uk
Map:
View in Google Maps (GU2 7JP)
Venue:
Stag Hill Campus, Department of Sociology, Elizabeth Fry Building, Level 3. GU2 7JP
Description:
OVERVIEW
This course introduces participants to the powerful statistical package, SPSS for Windows, and its use for data management. SPSS is a statistical package widely used in education, government, commerce, business and health sectors. This introductory course does not assume any prior knowledge of SPSS or even statistics and is designed for students, researchers, people working in social research settings or anyone who needs to work with quantitative data or be able to understand simple SPSS output.
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
How to create frequency tables and produce simple summary statistics
How to enter data and how to add variable and value labels (including importing Excel files)
How to explore the relationship between two variables using tables and appropriate statistics
How to recode (group) your data
How to use simple SPSS syntax
How to create new variables, and transform the values of existing variables.
HOW WILL THIS COURSE BE TAUGHT?
This course is an entirely hands-on, computer-based course taught through practical exercises. Each participant has access to their own PC and is guided through the exercise by the course tutor, Jane Fielding.
ABOUT THE TUTOR
Jane Fielding has been delivering short courses in SPSS at the University of Surrey since 1982. She teaches modules on social statistics at both the Masters and Undergraduate levels and has co-written (with Nigel Gilbert) an introductory statistics text book Understanding Social Statistics (Sage Publications, 2006). She is the Programme Director of the Masters in Social Research Methods, which, as the first master’s course of its kind in the UK, celebrates its 40th anniversary student intake in 2014.
Cost:
Government/commercial sector - £195.00; Staff registered at Educational or Charitable Institutions - £150.00; Students - £110.00
Website and registration:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sociology/study/daycourses/events/2014-2015/141126-SPS-1-QNM.htm
Region:
South East
Keywords:
Quantitative Approaches (other)
Related publications and presentations:
Quantitative Approaches (other)