Assignment #2
Creating Data Files and Key Concepts
Part A: Creating an SPSS Data File: Beginning Primary Data Analysis
Think about three generations of your family: your grandparents, your parents and aunts and uncles, and your siblings and cousins.
Create an SPSS datafile, where each record (row) is a living member of your family in these three generations. [If your three-generation family includes more than 50 people, choose to focus on your maternal (mother's) OR paternal (father's) side only.]
Your SPSS file should include information on FOUR variables:
1) Sex of your family member
2) Age of your family member
3) Relationship of your family member to you (for example, grandmother, uncle, brother)
4) Frequency of seeing family member in the past year
Make sure that each of your variables has a variable name (mnemonic), a variable label, value labels (if appropriate), missing data codes (if appropriate), and the appropriate measure (nominal, ordinal, or scale).
PRINT OUT YOUR DATA DICTIONARY (6 points)
GO TO: FILE, then OPEN, then DISPLAY DATA FILE INFORMATION (from the working file)
PRINT OUT YOUR DATA FILE (6 points)
GO TO: FILE, then PRINT with your Data Editor open
Part B: Key Concepts
Complete the following questions at the end of Chapter 1 in your textbook.
SPSS Problem on page 25.
In each case, provide the Variable Name, Variable Label, and Category Values (9 points)
Chapter Exercises, beginning on page 25
Q2a-f (6 points). (Use standard format for creating hypotheses.)
Q8 (3 points)
Due by Tuesday, September 8, in class.