SPSS Assignment:

This link takes you to a .pdf file of 40 “surveys” about smoking: Click here for surveys

Each page has two “surveys.” (I am using quotation marks because I made up the surveys)

For each survey, you will find the following variables: Subject number, Sex of respondent, Age of respondent, Weight of respondent, Number of cigarettes smoked per day, Total Years respondent has been smoking, Breathing ability, Exercise habits, and General Health report.

You must create an SPSS file with all 40 subjects/respondents and all 9 variables.

You should use the SPSS tutorial as a guide.

For each variable, you must create a variable name and label the variable. You must also create a coding scheme (e.g. 0 = male, 1 = female) by assigning values to the answer options in order to actually enter the data. You must create labels for those values. Does the data have decimals? No? Then neither should the values in your data set. However, the variable you create (see below) WILL have decimals….so do what is appropriate.

Create a new variable for number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day [hint: there are 20 cigarettes in a pack].

You must print out and turn in the following:

(1) frequencies for Sex, Breathing, Exercise, and Health variables

(2) descriptives for Age, Weight, Cigs per Day, and Years Smoking variables

(3) crosstabs for (a) Sex and Exercise and (b) Sex and Health

(4) descriptives for Packs per Day variable

Save your data set as an SPSS .sav file with the following title:

Your first initial Your last name PLSC350Fall2016.sav

So my file would have this name:

shuffmonPLSC350Fall2016.sav

Each of the 4 items above will be treated like a separate homework for grading purposes.