Statistics with SPSS for Social Scientists

online course

Workshop contents and objectives

You should attend this workshop if you have no or not much skills with basic statistics and statistical packages, especially if you attend another workshop during the Summer School that requires skills with statistics and software.

The aim of this 3-day workshop is to acquire, deepen or brush-up skills with statistics and SPSS.

Topics covered

Working with SPSS (windows, menus, command language, output management)
Preparing data for analysis (data entry, data transformations, scale construction)
Descriptive statistics and data exploration (categorical and continuous variables)
Analysis of relationships (crosstabulation, tables of means, simple regression), summarising relationships and statistical tests.
Based on a combination of a series of e-learning modules, completed by short presentations and tutoring sessions adapted to the needs of the participants, you will work on your own, at your pace. We will be around to provide guidance, further explanations and help in case of difficulties. The e-learning modules of this workshop will remain available after the Summer School.

Prerequisites

None, except motivation to acquire skills with statistics and statistical software.

Course leader

Eugène Horber

Target group

The Summer School in Social Science Methods has been conceived for those who feel the need to refresh, deepen and widen their methodological knowledge and skills, whatever their professional situation: student, researcher or practitioner.

Course aim

The aim of this 3-day workshop is to acquire, deepen or brush-up skills with statistics and SPSS.

Fee info

CHF 200: Normal fee for the Preliminary workshop only.