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Introduction to SPSS 17.0 for Windows Material covered: Creating a new SPSS data file, variable labels, value labels, saving data files, opening an existing SPSS data file, generating frequency distributions, obtaining printouts from SPSS. To start SPSS 17.0 for Windows Depending on the computer you find yourself in front of, here’s what you’ll need to do to open SPSS. There may just be an SPSS icon on the desktop. If there is, double-click on it and that’s all there is to it. If there’s no SPSS icon on the desktop you may have to start the program using the Start button. Click on Start. Click Programs. Click Radford University Course Software. Click Math-Stats. Click SPSS 17.0 Click SPSS for Windows 17.0. Two windows should pop up. The window in front is labeled SPSS 17.0 for Windows. This opening window gives you several options. For example, it shows you the data files you’ve used most recently and gives you the option of reopening one. Frankly, what I usually do is to hit the Cancel button on this window and get right to the SPSS spreadsheet. Go ahead and do this. Now you’re looking at the spreadsheet. This is the starting point for most of the things we’re going to ask SPSS to do. You’ll notice a bunch of terms at the top, like File, Edit, View, Data, Transform, Analyze, Graphs, etc. Each one gives you a pull down menu with a particular set of options. By and large, if you want something done in SPSS you go to the appropriate pull-down menu, find what you need, click the option that tells SPSS what you want to do and click an OK button. You might also notice that there are two “tabs” for the spreadsheet displayed at the bottom. The one that’s active at the moment is the Data View tab. Logically enough, this is where you get to look at the actual data. Clicking the tab labeled Variable View takes you to a spreadsheet that presents information about each variable, rather than the scores for that variable. We’ll get to the Variable View in a