Week 4 Part 1- SPSS

this time, we are required to analyse the data from the previous survey conducted by me and pair,Helmi.before this, I've stated that we had to conduct surveys using two different platforms; surveymonkey and googledocs. but for this data analysis, we were told to only use the data from google doc, as the survey by surveymonkey will only be used as a pilot test.

the task:


SPSS:
1. From the printed questionnaire, use pencil for giving code for the variable of each item. Example 

• Form ID: (give values 1 to 10, 10 -20) 
• Gender: 

            1. Female  

            2. Male  

• Scale:

1. Strongly disagree

2. Disagree

3. Less agree

4. Agree

5. Strongly Agree

2. Open SPSS and start naming the variable using Variable View .. Example 

• Name: Form ID ; type: Numeric:; width : 8; decimals: 0; Label: Form Identification; values: none  
• Name: Gender; type: numeric; width: 8; decimals: 0; Label Value (1, Male.....)

3. Data Entry (for printed questionnaire) using Data View
4. In data view, Data -> Merge / import data from Online Questionnaire spreadsheet (make sure that the variable is the same)
5. Run the analyze ->descriptive data: Frequencies
6. Output will be displayed in SPSS Viewer
7. The table and graph can be copied from SPSS Viewer to OpenOffice Writer for reporting.
(Exclude the data from surveymonkey – it is just a pilot test)
Based on the online discussion (Qualitative data), analyze the data by create the thema for the discussion about certain issues.

the data was analysed using IBM SPSS 19 and, the data will be used as the input for assignment 5 (mini research). 

what is SPSS??

 "Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) is computer program used for survey authoring and deployment, data mining, text analytics, statistical analysis, and collaboration and deployment "- Wikipedia.

 Reflection:

so, SPSS is indeed a complicated thing i think. ehem. we have to key-in the data from google docs to this analysing software, one by one. it's such an eyesore to see those numbers.allergic.KIDDING. overall, this SPSS is indeed a new thing for me. the steps, sometimes quite easy, sometimes can be quite a mess. but, once you've get used to it, it wouldn't be a problem anymore. data analysing -- it's quite hard actually for me as I'm the one who can easily get confused if the data is repeated. why do i said so? because most of the respondents have the same answer. for example, if the question is about gender. let's say the value '1' is for male, and '2' for female. the sequence will be like "1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,2"continuous 1, and it's order horizontally.  isn't that confusing enough? sometimes, i mistakenly put the value as '2' where it actually should be '1'. fortunately, i have my partner, Helmi, to correct the data if i make mistakes in keying in the data. :)) the best part when using this SPSS is when I have to wait for the data to be analysed automatically by SPSS system. why? because that means I have successfully overcome all the confuse-ness and able to analyse the data. and, the worst part is when I finally realised that i've mistakenly key-in the data.haha. I've to key-in the data for several times to get the exact analysis. but never mind, that's called learning from mistakes.nobody's perfect. and i am certain that others sure do have the same problem as mine. i think that's all for this week, I'll be back with the update on mini research, which is based on the data analysed using this SPSS. sorry for the broken english, hopefully you can get the points that i'm trying to convey. thanks for reading.