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.

  1. one -- Typing in variables and values in SPSS and MS Excel.  Due week 2.
  2. two -- Using SPSS and MS Excel to determine frequencies, make charts and select subpopulations. Due week 3.
  3. three -- Using SPSS to determine cross tablulations and chi-square statistics.   Due week 6.
  4. four - - Using SPSS and MS Excel for correlation and simply OLS regression analyses.  Due week 9.
  5. five -- Using SPSS and MS Excel for multiple regression and multiple correlation analyses.  Due week 10.
  6. six -- Using SPSS for logistic regression analysis.  Due week 11.
  7. 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)