Introduction to SPSS:
A Tutorial

Part I
  1. Structure of Class
  2. The Basics Of SPSS For Windows
  3. Open Existing SPSS Data File
  4. Generating Frequency Tables
  5. Defining Labels and Declaring Missing Values
  6. Generating Simple Summary Statistics
  7. Comparing Differences in Mean Salary Between Genders
  8. Recoding Variables
  9. Generating a Cross-Classification Table (Crosstab)
  10. Compute a New Variable
  11. Generating a Simple Linear Regression
  12. Saving SPSS Files
  13. Keeping Track of Everything That You Have Done
  14. Getting Help
  15. Appendix
Part II
  1. Reading Other Types Of Data
  2. Reading In A Microsoft Excel File
  3. Reading In A Tab-Delimited Data File
  4. Moving Between SPSS on Different Platforms
  5. Basics of using Syntax
  6. Examples of Basic Syntax Commands
  7. Editing User Preferences
  8. Getting Help
Example Data Sets

 To download these files, right click your mouse on the file name and select the option to "Save Target As" (Explorer) or "Save Link As" (Netscape).
bank.sav (SPSS data file)
bank.dat (ASCII text file)
bank.xls (Microsoft Excel file)

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