Even if this is not the case, you can obtain a special version available only to faculty and students at a deep discount. As of this writing, the cost of a base subscription to SPSS starts at $99 per month! This need not trouble you if you are a student at a college or university that has purchased a site license. It has also added more and more features, notably including the ability to produce a wide range of graphs.ĭespite its many advantages, one thing that SPSS is not is free. It has become increasingly so for undergraduate instruction as, over time, it has become much more user-friendly, so that even students with no background in statistical analysis can master it as part of a single introductory research methods or statistics course. The authors of this tutorial have used SPSS in their teaching and research, and continue to consider it extremely useful. Eventually it became known simply by its initials (just as many people refer to “IBM” without knowing, or caring, that these initials originally referred to “International Business Machines.”) The name “SPSS” originally stood for “Statistical Package for the Social Sciences.” So successful was it, that it was widely adopted in business and other fields outside social science. SPSS (officially IBM SPSS Statistics) has, through many iterations and over many years, served as a widely used standard for analyzing quantitative data. This tutorial, written primarily for beginning students, describes the GUI version. There are two versions: the “syntax” version and the less comprehensive but more user-friendly GUI (Graphic User Interface) version. PSPP is a statistical analysis program made available at no charge to users by the Free Software Foundation. You will need to check carefully to make sure it pastes correctly and that no data is lost.Text file - download and save in MS Word format.ĭata File - download and save in SPSS system file format. Copy that cellĪnd paste it into a new data sheet. Scroll through your data to find a very big cell. ***If all records do not appear, it’s likely that the program truncated your data and smashed a bunch of records into one row. Go to Excel and in the top, left cell right click and chooseġ4. When everything is selected right click and chooseĬopy (sometimes it takes a while for the copy menu to show up. Come back to your internet browser and right click anywhere in the window. It will automatically open in an internet browser.ġ1. You will now see that for type it says “Firefox Document or some other internet browser.ġ0. For some reason, the file doesn’t remember that you chose. You will see that your exported file doesn’t have a file type specified. Navigate to the location of your output file.Ĩ. To do this, right click on the round Start Button in the very bottom, left corner of your computer monitor and chooseħ. When your screen looks like the one below, click Save.Ħ. Then, from the dropdown at the bottom, choose Navigate to an appropriate output location on the server. Note that it can take a minute to run this list and it might not show up in your Output Viewer right away.ĥ. If you don’t see your Output Viewer by default you can turn in on by clicking on This will put your entire data table into your Output Viewer in PSPP.Ī. (all caps and you must include a period).Ĥ. I’m sure there’s an easier way to do it but in case other Windows users need to know:ģ. What worked in the end is very simple but quite a few steps. Thanks very much to everyone who helped me through the issue of exporting to Excel.
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