Please send a copy of any revision to the author. You have permission to use this exercise and to revise it to fit your needs. A good reference on validity is Reliability and Validity Assessment by Edward G. Validity is also discussed and students are asked to use the idea of construct validity to validate the measure they created. The online version of the book is on the Social Science Research and Instructional Council's Website.
#COMPUTE VARIABLE PASW STATISTICS 18 WINDOWS#
A good reference on using SPSS is SPSS for Windows Version 23.0 A Basic Tutorial by Linda Fiddler, John Korey, Edward Nelson (Editor), and Elizabeth Nelson. Then you could go directly to Parts III and IV which deal with validity and relationships between variables. You could skip the part of the exercise that involves the creation of the new measure of religiosity since that variable (RELIGOS) is included in the data set. However, it is a good exercise to test one’s ability to think through a problem and then write the appropriate SPSS commands. The exercise is moderately difficult because it requires students to carefully deal with 18 different combinations of three variables in order to create the new measure of religiosity.
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In CROSSTABS students are asked to use percentages, Chi Square, and an appropriate measure of association.
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This exercise uses COMPUTE, RECODE and IF in SPSS to create new variables, FREQUENCIES, and CROSSTABS to explore the relationships among variables. The data have been weighted according to the instructions from the National Opinion Research Center. Some of the variables in the GSS have been recoded to make them easier to use and some new variables have been created. Email: to the Instructor: The data set used in this exercise is gss14_subset_for_classes_RELG.sav which is a subset of the 2014 General Social Survey.