SPSS resources

What is SPSS?

SPSS is a widely used statistical software package. It has an intuitive interface so you can be up and running fairly quickly. SPSS looks similar to a spreadsheet but the software is designed for data analysis rather than everyday use so it is much more suitable for research.

SPSS requires a licence, which has been paid for by the university.

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Installing SPSS

Using this page from IT services, you can follow the links to get SPSS installed. If you have any problems with installation, we’d recommend you contact IT Services.

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First Steps in SPSS

This Video gives a great introduction to SPSS and setting up your variables. It would be a good place to start if you’ve never opened SPSS before.

This webpage from Kent State University is a great guide to using the Data View window, entering data into SPSS and importing datasets.

These resources will help you get started with your dataset by summarising your data:

Guide to summarising categorical variables in SPSS (pdf)

Guide to summarising continuous data in SPSS (pdf)

These guides will get you started to data display in SPSS by making bar charts:

Simple bar charts (pdf)

Panelled bar charts (pdf)

Clustered bar charts (pdf)

Stacked bar charts (pdf)

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Hypothesis Tests in SPSS

Here are some guides from Laerd Statistics to help you carry out some statistical analyses in SPSS:

Paired T-tests (Also Called Dependent T-Tests) 

Unpaired T-Tests (also called Independent T-Tests) (pdf)

Chi-squared

One way ANOVA

Repeated Measures ANOVA

Two-way ANOVA

Simple Linear Regression

The above links are designed to help you carry out these analyses in SPSS. If you would like to learn what these analyses are and what they do, check out our resources or book a 1:1

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Where to go next

Help from MASH

We run workshops in SPSS which you can book through our workshops page.

We also have bookable one-to-one appointments and drop in sessions. If you would like help getting going you can book an appointment here. 

Useful websites

There are many online resources where you can learn SPSS for free such as this linkedin learning course.

There are some useful tutorials and case studies on the main IBM SPSS website