Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:34:15 +0100
Reply-To: John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
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From: John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
Subject: Re: New tutorials on MULT RESPONSE (in syntax) {and a new
page on Mark Abrams]
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I’m working from my 1992 course using spss-x 8 on a Vax for which I already have working examples: I’m simply converting and upgrading them for 19. The tutorials are aimed at absolute beginners and use data in ASCII format from 1986 (same format as many surveys deposited in archives). They are more about process and logic than the mechanics of SPSS, but I’ll check out CTABLES for future reference. If it’s not too complicated I might do something on that, but I still have far too much to do to finish other SPSS stuff. I can’t even replicate the exercises in 15 since IBM/SPSS don’t support it any more and I can’t get a renewal code for my CD. Hopefully they’ll leave 19 up long enough to maintain screenshot comparability.
Email: johnfhall@orange.fr
Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com <http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/>
Skype: surveyresearcher1
Phone: (+33) (0) 2.33.45.91.47
From: Jon K Peck [mailto:peck@us.ibm.com]
Sent: 06 March 2012 19:09
To: John F Hall
Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] New tutorials on MULT RESPONSE (in syntax) {and a new page on Mark Abrams]
If this works for V11, then you are not taking advantage of the much superior multiple response capabilities that go with CTABLES. That seems to be doing a disservice to users with mult response problems. I hope you have at least made it clear that in versions since 11.5 there is better technology available, albeit in an option. And, furthermore, that MULT RESPONSE set definitions have nothing to do with the types of mult response sets used in CTABLES and GGRAPH and vice versa. And GGRAPH mult response features are available in the Base product.
Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
peck@us.ibm.com
new phone: 720-342-5621
From: John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
To: SPSSX-L@listserv.uga.edu
Date: 03/06/2012 11:02 AM
Subject: [SPSSX-L] New tutorials on MULT RESPONSE (in syntax) {and a new page on Mark Abrams]
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I’ve just posted two extensive new tutorials for MULT RESPONSE using SPSS 19, but the exercises will work with all releases back to SPSS 11. They use syntax rather than the GUI for basic operations such as data capture, dictionary specification and tabulation. They proceed gently, step-by-step, with full colour SPSS 19 screenshots at each step, and use real data from a wave of the British Social Attitudes (BSA) series. They relate to earlier tutorials explaining the use of multiple response questions in surveys, and specifically to different ways they are used and coded in the BSA. Two more are in preparation, but the available material is all on page:
<http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/33-multiple-response-mult-response.html> http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/33-multiple-response-mult-response.html
Slightly off-topic, but I’ve also just posted a new page on my old boss Dr Mark Abrams (1906-1994) who is widely accepted as the father of survey and market research (and much else) in the UK. The page contains a brief profile, details of publications, but most important, the transcript of a fascinating 1984 interview in which describes in fascinating detail his early childhood growing up in an émigré Jewish family in North London, his student days at Latymer School and LSE, his early political education and contacts, his research career from the 1930s onwards (including time in the USA) and his work for the Labour Party. Many of the people he refers to, he both knew and worked with: they are household names in the pantheon of the social sciences.
The page is:
<http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/mark-abrams.html> http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/mark-abrams.html
. . and should be of interest to all social scientists, not just researchers. If any of you are on the SRMSNET or other lists, please forward this to them.
John Hall
Email: <mailto:johnfhall@orange.fr> johnfhall@orange.fr
Website: <http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/> www.surveyresearch.weebly.com
Skype: surveyresearcher1
Phone: (+33) (0) 2.33.45.91.47
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