SPSS – Open CSV Data File

Summary This tutorial walks you through opening a .csv data file in SPSS. We chose a .csv file as obtained from Google Analytics (GA). Since many readers may be unfamiliar with GA, the screenshot below gives a basic idea of what the data look like before we export them as a .csv file. The original […]

SPSS FREQUENCIES Command

SPSS FREQUENCIES command can be used for much more than frequency tables; it’s also the easiest way to obtain basic charts such as histograms and bar charts. On top of that, it provides us with percentiles and some other statistics. Plenty of reasons for taking a closer look at this ubiquitous SPSS command. We’ll use employees.sav throughout […]

SPSS Data Editor Window

SPSS Data Editor window is SPSS’ main window. This is the only window that’s always open whenever we run SPSS. It’s recognized by a red icon  in its left top corner. The Data Editor has two tabs in the left bottom corner: we can click Data View for inspecting our data values. Alternatively, Variable View shows information regarding the meaning […]