Managing Data with SPSS for Windows

Date:

26/11/2014 - 26/11/2015

Organised by:

University of Surrey

Presenter:

Dr Jane Fielding

Level:

Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)

Contact:

Elizabeth Stutchbury, Administrator
Day Courses in Social Research
Department of Sociology
University of Surrey
GUILDFORD, GU2 7XH, UK

tel: +44(0)1483 689458
email: e.stutchbury@surrey.ac.uk

Map:

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Venue:

University of Surrey, Stag Hill Campus, Guildford, Surrey

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/Commericial Sector - £195
Academic/ Charitable Sector - £150
All Students - £110

Website and registration:

Region:

South East

Keywords:

Data Quality and Data Management , Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis

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Data Quality and Data Management
Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis

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