Presenting Data with SPSS Tables

Target Audience:
Anyone with little or no experience of using SPSS Tables for Windows who wishes to develop an in-depth understanding of the Tables procedure and gain the ability to produce high impact, high quality tables.

Prerequisites:
You must be PC literate and familiar with the basics of operating SPSS for Windows. This includes defining, entering and editing data, opening and saving data files, generating basic exploratory statistics (including frequency tables, basic cross tabulations and tables of means) and editing and saving output. The aforementioned techniques must have been used in SPSS.

Overview:
The course concentrates on utilising the power and flexibility of the Tables module, starting with the production of simple tables and advancing on a step-by-step basis to more complex designs. You will gain an understanding of the full range of Tables options and an appreciation of how each specification you make influences the end product. In addition, you will learn to work with the command Syntax to allow you to reproduce the desired tables on a regular basis without having to re-specify all options. The first part of the course concentrates on the fundamental operations before progressing into more advanced topics that will give you a complete understanding of the capabilities of the SPSS Tables module.

Objectives:
By the end of the course you will have learned to:
• Present combinations of variables in a table using nesting and stacking
• Control the statistics and totals that are displayed in the table
• Control all aspects of the table layout and printing
• Work with command syntax to allow the efficient reproduction of the desired tables

Duration:
1 day

Course Content:
After an introduction to the Tables commands and essential terminology, the
course will concentrate on the following topic areas:

Essential Features of the Table Module
• Combining variables in a table using stacking and nesting
• Controlling the statistics and percentages displayed in the table
• Adding Totals to the table
• Customising the layout of the table
• Annotating the table through titles and footnotes
• Summarising variables within cells (e.g. displaying averages)
• Printing high quality tables

Further Capabilities of the Tables Module
• Summarising multiple response data
• Complex tables involving multiple response data
• Multiple statistics in the same table and mixed statistics formats
• Labels and statistics-only dimensions