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Site first published: 15 October 2009
Major re-organisation of menus: March - May 2015
Latest additions and modifications: 31 October 2015
Latest additions and modifications: 31 October 2015
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Welcome to what I hope you will find a valuable and interesting resource for researchers, students and others doing, or learning about, survey research and the analysis of survey data. You will find here a wealth of materials drawn from my 50 years as a survey researcher, not only of doing dozens of surveys myself (and advising and assisting on hundreds of others) but also of teaching research methods and data analysis to social science students, including intensive use (and teaching) of SPSS since 1972.
[Photo: JFH at the Bar/Restaurant La Cale, Blainville-sur-Mer (50) France, July 2010]
Hello everyone. I'm John Hall, previously Senior Research Fellow, Survey Unit, (UK) Social Science Research Council (1970 - 76) and Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Unit Director, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London (1976 - 1992). I took early retirement in 1992 and came to live in Lower Normandy (France) in 1994, but am still actively supporting others wishing to learn about, or become practitioners of, social (survey) research and/or the management and analysis of data from questionnaire surveys using SPSS (now IBM SPSS Statistics ™.).
Here and throughout this site SPSS refers to IBM® SPSS® Statistics software
[Photo: JFH at the Bar/Restaurant La Cale, Blainville-sur-Mer (50) France, July 2010]
Hello everyone. I'm John Hall, previously Senior Research Fellow, Survey Unit, (UK) Social Science Research Council (1970 - 76) and Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Unit Director, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London (1976 - 1992). I took early retirement in 1992 and came to live in Lower Normandy (France) in 1994, but am still actively supporting others wishing to learn about, or become practitioners of, social (survey) research and/or the management and analysis of data from questionnaire surveys using SPSS (now IBM SPSS Statistics ™.).
Here and throughout this site SPSS refers to IBM® SPSS® Statistics software
[NB: Many, but not all, of my materials are also on my page on www.academia.edu where for the past three years it has been consistently among the top 3% of hits. Users are always advised to transfer from that site to this (where entries are more up-to-date) but many don't. You can see a count of page-hits on the other site and detailed analysis of pages read during the last 60 days]
This site has three main components:
1: Survey Analysis Workshop (Self-teaching course using SPSS for Windows)
2: Survey Research Practice
3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
plus information on the work of:
4: Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (1970 - 1976)
5: Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London (1976 - 1992)
1: Survey Analysis Workshop (Self-teaching course using SPSS for Windows)
2: Survey Research Practice
3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
plus information on the work of:
4: Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (1970 - 1976)
5: Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London (1976 - 1992)
Apart from developing the site, you can see what else I've been up to in Recent and planned activities This includes my contributions to ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe) at the University of York in October 2014 and December 2006. (See: Workshop and presentations for ASSESS)
New materials are being added regularly, so apologies if some pages keep appearing and disappearing in the left pane, or the catalogues and listings are not quite up-to-date. It shouldn't affect your use of the site, but I occasionally need to publish hidden pages to verify contents and correct functioning of associated links.
This site contains 116 html pages (including hidden pages) accessed via sub-menus which pop-out from the main menu at the left of the screen: you can explore the site using these, but there is also a printer-friendly Guide to page and pop-out menus (pdf) which shows what these look like and how they are arranged.
Most pages contain links to other pages and/or to one or more of dozens of tutorials, reports, SPSS *.sps, *.sav and other files as well as to useful on-line resources.
[NB: I'm currently revising, rewriting and updating earlier (2009-10) tutorials from SPSS 15 and 18 to SPSS 21 (and, from August 2013, SPSS 22): all syntax exercises and examples work with 19, 18, 15 and mostly with 11 anyway). This task is continuing, but I'll try to keep disruption to a minimum.
All downloadable tutorials are set in 11-point Arial and optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm). They are legible even if printed two pages to a sheet (to save trees and minimise printing costs). Files prepared up to June 2011 are in *.doc format from Word 2003. As of June 2011 I am using Word 2007 which can save files in *.pdf format with fully functioning hyperlinks. These retain all original page formatting and are much quicker to display. Hopefully *.pdf files will gradually replace all files currently in *.doc format]
New materials are being added regularly, so apologies if some pages keep appearing and disappearing in the left pane, or the catalogues and listings are not quite up-to-date. It shouldn't affect your use of the site, but I occasionally need to publish hidden pages to verify contents and correct functioning of associated links.
This site contains 116 html pages (including hidden pages) accessed via sub-menus which pop-out from the main menu at the left of the screen: you can explore the site using these, but there is also a printer-friendly Guide to page and pop-out menus (pdf) which shows what these look like and how they are arranged.
Most pages contain links to other pages and/or to one or more of dozens of tutorials, reports, SPSS *.sps, *.sav and other files as well as to useful on-line resources.
[NB: I'm currently revising, rewriting and updating earlier (2009-10) tutorials from SPSS 15 and 18 to SPSS 21 (and, from August 2013, SPSS 22): all syntax exercises and examples work with 19, 18, 15 and mostly with 11 anyway). This task is continuing, but I'll try to keep disruption to a minimum.
All downloadable tutorials are set in 11-point Arial and optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm). They are legible even if printed two pages to a sheet (to save trees and minimise printing costs). Files prepared up to June 2011 are in *.doc format from Word 2003. As of June 2011 I am using Word 2007 which can save files in *.pdf format with fully functioning hyperlinks. These retain all original page formatting and are much quicker to display. Hopefully *.pdf files will gradually replace all files currently in *.doc format]
I am extremely grateful to Terry Blom my neighbour and fellow ex-pat (early) retiree (previously IT Manager, Natwest Bank) without whose unstinting technical support and engineering know-how, the site wouldn't exist at all.
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