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Day 2
Time
Activity/Topic Lead Person(s) Readings (Required) Remarks (Reading are
recommended)
08:30-09:00 Review of Day 1
Discussion on research question (Project work)
09:00-10:00 • Levels of measurement (including types of variables)
• Steps in data creation (from questionnaire)
10:00-10:15 Tea/Coffee
10:15-11:00 In class exercise: Variables
-Provide a list of variables (from CVFS or DHS data)
with their measurement units. Discuss their levels of
measurements (also a descriptive statistics table from a
journal article).
11:00-12:00 SPSS Tutorial 1: Introduction to the SPSS System (with
hands-on): Overview of SPSS windows (data view and
variable view, syntax window, and output window)
-File structures
-Prem
-Prem
-Prem/Binoj/Bishnu
-Singleton and Straits ( Pp.84-
112; 126-130)
-IBM SPSS Statistics 19. Brief
Guide (Electronic copy)
Project Work
Identification of
dependent and
independent variable(s)
SPSS-Hands on Exercise
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 SPSS Tutorial 1: …contd
-Coding and entering data into SPSS
-Importing data into SPSS
14:00-15:00 SPSS Tutorial 2.1:Exploring data with SPSS
-Filter (select if), sort and merge functions
-Syntax basics
15:00-15:15 Tea/Coffee
-Prem/Binoj/Bishnu
-Prem/Binoj/Bishnu
-IBM SPSS Statistics 19. Brief
Guide (Electronic copy)
-IBM SPSS Statistics 19. Brief
Guide (Electronic copy)
SPSS-Hands on Exercise
SPSS-Hands on Exercise
15:15-16:45 SPSS Tutorial 2.2:Exploring data with SPSS
-Data transformations (recodes and compute functions)
-Prem/Binoj/Bishnu
-IBM SPSS Statistics 19. Brief
Guide (Electronic copy)
SPSS-Hands on Exercise
16:45-17:00 Wrap-up of Day 2