Downloadable content
All hosted, downloadable content on this page is either publicly available on the Internet or here with the author’s permission. Citations are given when author content is known. Some are external links; please report any broken links you find. Syntax files on this page open directly in many browsers, right-click and save the file to open later in SPSS.
Datasets
General Social Survey (GSS)
Spans 1972-2010, available as a cummulative, multi-year dataset or by individual year in various data formats on the GSS website.
- NORC GSS website
- Cummulative GSS 1971-2010 Dataset link
- GSS Cummulative 1972-2010 Codebook link
- Cite: NORC GSS Codebook; Smith, Tom W.; Marsden, Peter V; Michael Hout; Jibum Kim. General Social Surveys, 1972-2010.
Metro Chicago Information Center
- MCIC Metro Survey Dataset 1991-2002
- MCIC Metro Survey Codebook 1991-2002
- MCIC Metro Survey Summary Report 1991-2002
- Syntax file with useful recodes, scales, and filters
- Cite: Garth Taylor, Ph.D., Founder, former President and Senior Research Fellow, MCIC.
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- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- Numerous datasets covering a wide variety of subject and years all publicly avialable in SPSS and other data formats. Just browse till you find something you like. Data sourced from various authors, methodology and codebooks will differ.
- ICPSR website
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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- European Social Survey(ESS)
- Multi-institutional effort to survey 30 European countries through 5 rounds of surveys between 2002-2010. Each round is a dataset; the content is in English. Content is free to download, but a brief, free registration is required.
- ESS Website
- European Social Survey(ESS)
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My MPS 580 Quantitative Methods 1 weekly handouts (Word doc), permission courtesy of my former professor Garth Taylor, Ph.D.
- Lecture 1: Theory, variables, and datasets
- Lecture: Bivariates, Chi-Square
- Lecture 3: Levels of measurement, scaling
- Lecture 4: Confidence intervals, case selection, T
- Lecture 5: ETA, bivariate regression, R
- Lecture 6: Multiple regressoin, interaction
- Lecture 7: Data mining, dummy variables
- Lecture 8: Spurious effects, casual modeling
- Lecture 9: Evaluation research
- Lecture 10: Causal order, block models, standardized slopes
SPSS materials
- Taking notes in your syntax (Syntax file)
- Upload an Excel dataset into SPSS (Word doc)
- Select/filter cases in SPSS (Word doc)
- Constructing an interval scale variable (Word doc>
- Constructing an interval scale variable SYNTAX — file for the Word doc above, includes test examples.
- Crosstab & Chi-Square example comparing gardening vs. museum attendence on self-reported health (MCIC data, syntax file).
- Crosstab & Chi-Square and T-Test example using Mitt Romney policy study (MCIC data, syntax file)
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- Presentation Quality (PQ) Gallery — Excel file shows different ways to display data in high quality tables and charts, suitable for articles and presentations. Be sure to look at the different tabs in the file, there are many of them. Courtesy of Garth Taylor, Ph.D.
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- Chi-Square and ANOVA example — Excel file shows calculations for each test, formulas in cells.
- Variety Variance and Standard Deviation example –Excel file comparing two lists of randomized data, each with a variance and standard deviation measure for comparison.