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What is SPSS?

SPSS is a widely used statistical software package. It has an intuitive interface so you can be up and running fairly quickly. SPSS looks similar to a spreadsheet but the software is designed for data analysis rather than everyday use so it is much more suitable for research.

SPSS requires a licence, which has been paid for by the university.

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Installing SPSS

Using from IT services, you can follow the links to get SPSS installed. If you have any problems with installation, we’d recommend you

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First Steps in SPSS

gives a great introduction to SPSS and setting up your variables. It would be a good place to start if you’ve never opened SPSS before.

from Kent State University is a great guide to using the Data View window, entering data into SPSS and importing datasets.

These resources will help you get started with your dataset by summarising your data:

Guide to summarising categorical variables in SPSS (pdf)

Guide to summarising continuous data in SPSS (pdf)

These guides will get you started to data display in SPSS by making bar charts:

Simple bar charts (pdf)

Panelled bar charts (pdf)

Clustered bar charts (pdf)

Stacked bar charts (pdf)

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Hypothesis Tests in SPSS

Here are some guides from Laerd Statistics to help you carry out some statistical analyses in SPSS:

(Also Called Dependent T-Tests) 

(also called Independent T-Tests) (pdf)

The above links are designed to help you carry out these analyses in SPSS. If you would like to learn what these analyses are and what they do, check out our resources or

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Where to go next

Help from MASH

We run workshops in SPSS which you can book through our .

We also have bookable one-to-one appointments and drop in sessions. If you would like help getting going you can . 

Useful websites

There are many online resources where you can learn SPSS for free such as thiscourse.

There are some useful and on the main