Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Bryn Mawr
College
Computer
Assignments and Other Handouts for SW134
Instructors:
Teaching Assistants:
Thomas
Vartanian
Maggie Eisen
Thomas
Duffin
Jackie Kotnarowski
Barb
Toews
Susan Young
The following are your computer homework assignments for the
semester.
See Calendar for due dates.
- one -- Typing in variables
and values in SPSS and MS Excel. Due week 2.
- two -- Using SPSS and MS Excel
to
determine frequencies, make charts and select subpopulations. Due week
3.
- three -- Using SPSS to determine
cross tablulations and chi-square statistics. Due week 6.
- four - - Using SPSS and MS Excel for
correlation and simply OLS regression analyses. Due week 9.
- five -- Using SPSS and MS Excel for
multiple regression and multiple correlation analyses. Due week
10.
- six -- Using SPSS for logistic
regression analysis. Due week 11.
- seven -- Using SPSS for analysis of
variance and group t-tests. Due week 13.
Codebooks for the 3
Data Sets
Click here for the codebook for the
1968-2007 Child/Adolescent Sample
Click here for the codebook for the 1997 to 2007 Child Development
Supplement
Click here for the codebook for the
1992 to 2009 PSID Sample
Accessing the Data, Weighting of the Data, and Selecting Subgroups
How to Access the data sets in SPSS on the
Undergraduate Campus
How to Weight the Data Sets in SPSS
How to Select Subgroups Using SPSS
Data for Excel
Download a small version of the PSID data in MS
Excel format
Go to the PSID Home Page
at the University of Michigan
Go to the
CDS page that explains the variable composition of many of the scales
in the data (the behavioral problem index is on page 10 of this guide)