Scholar-Practitioner Project: Manipulating Your Data Set in SPSS
After having explored the intricacies of secondary databases, you will now have the opportunity to put into practice what you have learned. It is vital to recognize and describe the multiple attributes of the data residing in your database. Exploring the data will enable you to identify whether the data structure and values satisfy your information needs. If the data structure and values require some level of manipulation, you will now be equipped with the tools to alter the format and perform the required analyses.
For this Assignment, you will prepare your selected data set for analysis in order to answer your research question.
To prepare:
Take your selected data set from your Scholar-Practitioner Project and enter it into SPSS. You may also manipulate the data in Excel and then convert it to a format for your statistical software needs.
Perform the following on your database for each research questions (RQ) separately:
Indicate your research question(S) (RQ).
Define the variable names and categories you will be using for answering each RQ.
Apply techniques you learned last week to your continuous and categorical variables (convert your continuous variables to categorical if it is more appropriate for your statistical tests.
Explore your categorical variables with frequency tables and if your categorical variables has cell size less than 6 then combine some levels to increase cell sizes.
Perform the statistical analysis you proposed in previous weeks (both descriptive and analytic) for answering your RQ.
Include SPSS output(s) to support your calculation(s)/result(s)
Make sure to apply the feedback from your Instructor from your methods and analysis plan as you construct your database.
