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OFFICE OF PLANNING, ASSESSMENT, RESEARCH AND QUALITY
Using SPSS for Data Analysis: Support Document for SPSS Output Tables
Prepared by: UW-Stout Office of Planning, Assessment, Research & Quality (PARQ)
Tynan Heller Susan Greene Revised on 8/29/12
Prepared for: UW-Stout Campus
Report distributed to: UW-Stout Campus
DOCUMENT NO: BPA-900 APPROVAL: Susan Greene The user is responsible for ensuring this is the current revision. Thank you!
EFFECTIVE: 8/29/2012 SUPERSEDES: Ver 4
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3 This document provides an explanation on how to read SPSS output tables for a range of analyses (Created using SPSS version 17.0)
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Table of Contents
Frequency Analysis ......................................................................................................................... 5 Definitions associated with a frequency analysis ....................................................................... 5 Section 1: Frequencies without missing responses ..................................................................... 7 Section 2: Frequencies without descriptive & with missing responses ...................................... 8 Section 3: Frequencies with descriptive statistics ...................................................................... 9 Ordinal data ............................................................................................................................. 9 Interval/Ratio data ................................................................................................................. 10 Cross Tabulation Analysis with Chi-Square Analysis .................................................................. 12 Definitions associated with crosstab analysis ........................................................................... 12 Section 1: Example with large cell