Saptarshi Basu Roy Choudhury
7 years & 5 months ago

Hello Ida,

To identify the most significant predictor(s), you need to analyze the data in SPSS with the help of regression technique. For this, first identify the dependent variable and the independent variables (predictors). Then select the regression technique that is the most appropriate for your model. Linear regression is one of the most widely used regression techniques. When you run linear regression with the chosen variables, it will give coefficient values and significance levels for each predictor as output along with the model summary and analysis of variance. The most significant predictors are those which have significance values less than 0.01. Those predictors are significant at 1% level of significance. Conventionally, predictors with significance value less than 0.05 are called significant predictors (at 5% level of significance).

Ida Mikisa
7 years & 5 months ago

Hello, how do I identify the most significant predictor >

Le yi
7 years & 6 months ago

Hi, i am measuring cyberbully and what type of measurement should i put? ordinal or scale?

Priya Chetty
7 years & 6 months ago

You may use Likert scale questions, they are suitable for most types of exploratory researches.

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Salda sam
7 years & 7 months ago

hi…if I put about weight or height, i select variable measure as scale, it is true?

Saptarshi Basu Roy Choudhury
7 years & 5 months ago

Hello Salda,

Yes, you are correct. When the variable under consideration is height or weight, you select variable measure as scale. This is because both height and weight can be measured in standardized units (height in cms or inches, weight in lbs or kilograms etc).

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Abira
8 years & 1 day ago

hi .. we code variables and only then we are able to work in spss . u mean to say the other options like ordinal or nominal that are given in spss are of no use ? we have to select all variable measure as ‘scale’ only since we have coded all varibles as 1,2,3 and so on?

Saptarshi Basu Roy Choudhury
7 years & 5 months ago

Hello Abira,

To be able to analyze data in SPSS, the values of all the variables need to be defined or coded as you said. All the three measures (nominal, ordinal and scale) are of use and which measure you select depends on the variable itself and the way you coded it. It is well explained in this article. The nominal measure is used when the variable involves no intrinsic ranking (such as gender), the ordinal measure is used when the variable involves intrinsic ranking (level of satisfaction, utility level) but is not generally quantifiable by a unit. On the other hand, scale measure is used when the variable is measurable by standard units such as age, income level etc. SPSS by default identifies any variable with numeric codes as scale variables. You just need to change it to nominal or ordinal when the variables fall in these categories. Hope this clears your doubt.

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Abdirazak
8 years & 3 months ago

hi my names abdirazak i am doing staff motivation research ,so when enter all my respondent data I have encountered problem about analyzis of data for example the frequencies table doesnot appear so can you help me.

Saptarshi Basu Roy Choudhury
7 years & 5 months ago

Hello Abdirazak,

After entering the data, follow these steps for its descriptive analysis. In the ‘Data View’ of SPSS input file, click on ‘Analyze’ from the taskbar that appears at the top of the page. It will give you a drop-down menu. In that menu, Put the cursor (but don’t click) on ‘Descriptive Statistics’. Upon doing that, it will give you another drop-down list on its side. Click on the ‘Frequencies’ menu in that list. It will open a dialogue box. The box includes two boxes inside it. The one on the left-hand side contains names of the variables as you labeled them. Select the ones you want to analyze and move them to the right-hand side box using the arrow that appears in between the boxes. After this, click on ‘Statistics’ menu that appears on the side of the right-hand box. Select the ones (such as mean, median, mode, standard deviation) you need for your analysis from the new dialogue box and click on ‘Continue’. Next, select the item ‘Display Frequency Table’ appearing below the left-hand side box by putting a tick mark on it. After that, click on ‘OK’ and you will get frequency table and measures of central tendencies of the selected variables in the output file. Hope this helps.

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Felix DARKO
8 years & 6 months ago

I have really enjoyed this your piece of work. I am embarking on a rural social development workshop and I got stacked with the pre-coding but after reading your article, I am moving on with it confidently. Thanks a lot.

Sudeshna Chakraborty
8 years & 6 months ago

Dear Felix,

It is a pleasure indeed and an accomplishment to be able to assist researchers like you!
All the best for your study.
You are welcome to share your thoughts/queries on topics or areas which you need to us to work upon and keep assisting.
Cheers!

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Canaan chiradza
8 years & 9 months ago

Hie my name is canaan, a natural resources student am doing my research on climate change, can you assist me on how to go about on chi-square and correlation analysis, as well as on making decisions after analysi.

8 years & 8 months ago

Dear Canaan,
Greetings!
The analysis and interpretation entirely depends on the questionnaire developed.
For correlation analysis you need to have independent and dependent variable. Refer to following link to understand further: https://www.projectguru.in/publications/correlation-variables-spss/
Further in case of chi-square you can refer to the following link: https://www.projectguru.in/publications/chi-square-test-spss/
These articles will help you with interpretations as well.

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Reuben
4 years & 3 months ago

I can help you with this

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9 years & 2 months ago

Dear Tiku,

Greetings
There are different scales however, the objectives would be able to define which scale you would want to apply within your research. You can even combine two-three stress scales together.

Tiku
9 years & 2 months ago

Hi.. my name is Tiku. i am a social work student. and i am doing my research on stress of students. what scale i have to select for measure stress among students? can help me to select a scale for my project?