SPSS: Variables, Values, and Labels

This recognition and recall practice is based on the GSS.SAV file on the disk that came with your Dowsall, Logio, Babbie and Halley (DLBH) SPSS text. You should have your DLBH text and disk with you. Please note that you cannot do this practice on a computer that does not have the SPSS program.

Instructions:

Upload SPSS, put in your disk that accompanied your book, and upload the file, GSS.SAV. In the main menubar of SPSS click on Utilities. On the dropdown menu select Variables . . .

If the long variable names are in the Utilities dialog box you may change them to short names by following the instructions on p. 84 of DLBH.

In the left-most frame of the dialog box, click on educ. The variable information will appear in the right-most frame.

Click on any of the question numbers to see jeanne's response.

1. Question: What is the variable name?

2. Question: What is the variable label?

3. Question: What possible values can the variable take on?

4. Question: What are the value labels?

5. Question: Why do we need to go to all the trouble of giving labels to our variables and values?

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