ABSTRACT
This chapter is organized into five distinct sections. The first deals with how to access the SPSS program. Once you are in the program, several menus and toolbars will become visible. The second section describes the options available in the SPSS Main Menu bar at the top of the screen. At the lower left-hand corner of the screen are two file tabs, which are discussed in the third and fourth sections of the chapter. They are the Variable View and the Data View files; each is accessed by clicking on the appropriate file tab. The Variable View file is described first because it is where you insert all descriptive information about the data file, including variable and value descriptions and names. The fourth section briefly describes characteristics of entering numeric data into the Data View file. The fifth section deals with several introductory file processing activities. The instructions presented here are for Version 16 of SPSS for Windows.
