Overview
Problem 1:
Recode POLVIEWS (political views) into three categories of liberal, moderate, and conservative. Run Crosstabs between recoded POLVIEWS and CONCLERG
Start with Transform, recode into different variables
Constructing bivariate tables:
Click analyze
Click descriptive statistics
Click Crosstabs
Click the arrow pointing to the row (move the dependent variable here)
Click arrow pointing to the column (move the independent variable here)
Click cells
Click columns in the Percentages box
Click continue
Click OK
a. Interpret the strength of the relationship between the two variables.
b. Interpret percentages (Write out the percentages).
Problem 2:
Crosstabulate race, religion and sex with political views (POLVIEWS). Have SPSS compute Cramer’s V.
Click Analyze
Click Descriptive statistics
Click Crosstabs
Move variable name into the rows box (Hint: move the dependent variable here)
Move variable name into the columns box (Hint: move the independent variable here)
Click the Statistics bottom at the bottom of the window and
Click the appropriate statistics (i.e. Cramer’s v)
Click Continue
Click OK
a. Interpret the relationships (Hint: Examine the value for Cramer’s v)
b. Which of the three variables has the strongest association with political view?