This 2-hour workshop will introduce the basic elements of SPSS – including the GUI menu, help system, basic settings, and file types – for new users. It will, drawing on examples, identify how to read in data in various forms, label variables and values, assign missing values, generate frequencies, descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations, and manipulate and export tables. No prior experience with statistical packages is assumed. This introduction provides the background for later workshops in data transformations, data management, and exploratory analysis.
