All the examples involving interval-level variables in Chapter 9 of the book can be reproduced using SPSS for Windows and the data file sceli.sav which can be downloaded from these web pages (datasets.html).

All of the techniques used are accessed within SPSS for Windows by clicking on Statistics (or Analyze if using Version 10 of SPSS). The two sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance are then accessed by first clicking on Compare Means and then on Independent Samples T Test... or One-Way ANOVA... respectively. Correlations are accessed by clicking on Correlate and then on Bivariate..., while linear and logistic regression are accessed by clicking on Regression and then on Linear... or Logistic... (Binary Logistic… if using Version 10 of SPSS) respectively.

For further details of the implementation of the various techniques within SPSS for Windows, see Bryman and Cramer (1999, 2001) or the various SPSS user manuals (Norusis, 1998; SPSS 1997a, 1997b, 1998).

The examples of analyses involving interval-level variables in Chapter 9 of the book can be reproduced using the commands in the file intex.sps which can be downloaded from these web pages and read into an SPSS syntax window. Syntax windows are described in the next page (synwins.html).

Bryman, A. and Cramer, D. 1999. Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS Release 8 for Windows: A Guide for Social Scientists. London: Routledge.

Bryman, A. and Cramer, D. 2001. Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS Release 10 for Windows: A Guide for Social Scientists. London: Routledge.

Norusis, M.J. 1998. SPSS 8.0 Guide to Data Analysis (1^st edition). Prentice Hall.

SPSS. 1997a.. SPSS Advanced Statistics 7.5 (1^st edition). Prentice Hall.

SPSS. 1997b. SPSS Professional Statistics 7.5 (1^st edition). Prentice Hall.

SPSS. 1998. SPSS Base 8.0 Applications Guide. Prentice Hall.