With only 30 cases, I'm not sure you should be doing anything other than descriptive analysis using simple counts and charts. Most of this can be done by hand rather than using SPSS, although it would be a useful learning exercise on a student project.

The link you sent doesn't have the xls file. Can you mail me off-list with the Excel file attached and I can guide you through the process of setting up a data file in SPSS: I can start you off, but you'll have to do all the work yourself!

You can start by looking at Block 1 on my website "From questionnaire to SPSS saved file" (http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/block-1-from-questionnaire-to-spss-saved-f ile.html ) and working your way through the exercises. These start from a short self-completion questionnaire and proceed through coding the data, typing the data into a raw data file, reading the data into SPSS, defining variable names, specifying variable and value labels, specifying values to be treated as missing and saving the results in a *.sav file before proceeding to data analysis.

Is your questionnaire in English? If so, please send me a copy of that as well.

John Hall johnfhall@orange.fr www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

PS Tell your supervisor to look at my tutorials as well!

-----Original Message----- From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of mahmoudee Sent: 08 April 2011 19:52 To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Factor Analysis Problem

thank u very much Mr.jonase

you are right my survey contain 37 variables and i have asked 30 people

i don't know how many people have I asked? it's not easy to find a lot of engineers to to ask them to fill the questionnaire

the link u send is not helpful to me coz I'm not very good in statistics it's my first time working with SPSS and Factor Analysis

I provide the excel file which include my data please give me any not about the analysis...

http://www.mediafire.com/?bm1ykahq1311vjv Importance X Frequency Excel File

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