A Visual Approach to SPSS for Windows 2nd Edition by Leonard Stern

Exercise 2

The file Radio.sav available on the publisher's website for this text at the address http://www.pearsonhighered.com/stern2e contains responses to the question "How often do you read the newspaper-every day, a few times a week, once a week, less than once a week, or never " obtained from the same respondents as those contributing to the data file used in exercise 1.
1. Open the file Radio.sav in SPSS.
2. Make a frequency distribution of the variable newsfreq.
3. Create a new title consisting of your name as the first item in the contents pane.
4. Use the outline pane to close the book corresponding to the statistics table in the content pane.
5. Print just the title consisting of your name and the frequency distribution from the output that appears in the contents pane.
Exercise 1
The data in the file TV.sav available on the publisher's website for this text at the address http://www.pearsonhighered.com/stern2e, shows the number of hours of TV watched per day reported by randomly selected adults aged 18-65 who were contacted by the National Opinion Research Center between 1993-1998.
1. Open the file TV.sav in SPSS.
2. Make a frequency distribution of the variable tvhrs.
3. In the viewer's contents pane, change the title of the Frequencies output to Frequency Distribution of the Number of Hours of TV Watched.
4. Move the frequency distribution table directly underneath the revised title.
5. Paste the title and the frequency distribution into a word-processing document.