SPSS: Recoding on Church Attendance

This recognition and recall practice is based on the GSS.SAV file on the disk that came with jeanne's edition of Dowdall, 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.

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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 attend. The variable information will appear in the right-most frame.

Then go to analyze and click on Descriptive Statistics and then on Frequencies

then go to p. 96 (jeanne's version of text) and follow the recoding of chatt

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