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

Exercise 1

Crocker, Niiya, and Mischkowsi (2008) asked 139 undergraduates (99 females and 61 males) to rank 6 values from most to least important. The values were business, art/music/theater, social life/relationships, science/pursuit of knowledge, religion/morality, and government/politics. In the data file Values.sav the value ranked as most important by each of the 139 participants is shown in the variable named highest. Note that highest is a string variable. Also note that because the values business, art/music/theater, and government/politics were rarely ranked as the most important values, they have been combined into a category labeled "other."
a. Make a suitable label for the variable highest. Plot the distribution of values of the variable highest. Show values of the variable highest on the x-axis and number of cases on the y-axis. Title the graph "Highest Ranked Values Selected by Undergraduate Students."
b. The variable gender contains the values 1 and 2 to represent females and males, respectively. After making a suitable label for the variable gender , plot the distribution of values of the variable highest on the x-axis broken down by females and males. Show percent of cases on the y-axis using a denominator that causes the different numbers of males and females in the study to not be apparent and thus distract a person inspecting the graph. Again, title the graph appropriately.