SPSS hasn’t exactly been known for generating nice charts, although you really can do so by using your own chart templates. SPSS 25, however, allows you to “create great looking charts by default!” This made me wonder: are the new charts really that great? The remainder of this article walks through the old and new looks for the big 5 charts in […]
SPSS offers several simple ways for restructuring data. VARSTOCASES -short for “variables to cases”- stacks variables on top of each other. Its reverse is CASESTOVARS -short for “cases to variables”. It basically stacks groups of cases behind each other in new variables. AGGREGATE adds summary statistics such as frequencies, sums and means to your data, optionally collapsing cases in the process. […]
Summary Merging some categories of a categorical variable in SPSS is not hard if you do it the right way. This tutorial demonstrates just that. We recommend you try the examples for yourself by downloading and opening hotel_evaluation.sav. Right, when doing a routine inspection of this data file, we’ll see that the variable nation has many small categories. This becomes apparent when […]
Creating SPSS stacked bar charts with percentages -as shown above- is pretty easy. However, figuring out the right steps may take quite some effort and frustration. This tutorial therefore shows how to do it properly in one go. We encourage you to follow along on course_evaluation.sav. Part of these data are shown in the screenshot below. Example: Course Rating […]
