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Chapter Three

Chapter Three discusses how to customize SPSS outputs, including modifying tables and graphs, and exporting results. It outlines methods for editing content, changing appearances, and exporting to other applications. Additionally, it covers report writing by retrieving relevant analysis results and presenting them in a structured format.

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Chapter Three

Chapter Three discusses how to customize SPSS outputs, including modifying tables and graphs, and exporting results. It outlines methods for editing content, changing appearances, and exporting to other applications. Additionally, it covers report writing by retrieving relevant analysis results and presenting them in a structured format.

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Chapter Three:

Customizing SPSS Outputs and Reporting

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3.1. Editing SPSS outputs

 Modifying tables

 Modifying graphs

 Exporting results

3.2. Report writing of the analysis results


Modifying tables
• Two possible ways:

In separate window

– Right click on the table, edit content, in separate window

In viewer

– double-click that table.

– This will outline dashed lines, indicating that it is ready to


be edited. Or

– Right click on the table, edit content, in separate window


Modifying tables
• There are several ways in which you can modify tables.

• In this section, we will discuss how you can:

alter text,

• Inserting: Title, caption, footnotes

• Changing: fonts

modify a table's appearance

• Delete column, create graph


Modifying graphs

• Includes:

• Changing the appearance

• Changing type of chart/graph

• Double click on the graph/chart displays chart editor


Modifying graphs
• Focus on three out of many useful features:

changing the type of chart,


• if you want to compare how your data would look when
displayed in other form
modifying text in the chart, and
• including the titles, footnotes, and annotations ….
modifying the graphs.

• Transposing

• Hide/show legend

• Rescale ….
Exporting results
 Export information in tables and/or graphs/charts to other
applications (like word, …).

 Exporting could be the whole output or selected output only.

 Options for exporting tables/graphs/charts are:

 Copy and paste,

we can copies the text and preserves tables/graphs/charts, but


does not copy formatting.

 Export

We can immediately create an HTML file that can be


viewed in a Web browser.
Report writing of the analysis results
• Retrieving relevant information from the analysis results
• Reports may Include:
– Tables, graphs, rephrased figures.
• Example The average income of participants was $34,419.57 years
(SD = $17,075.661).

The income was non-normally distributed, with skewness of 2.125


(SE = 0.112) and kurtosis of 5.378 (SE = 0.224)
N Mean Std. Skewness Kurtosis
Deviation
Statistic Statistic Statistic Statistic Std. Statisti Std.
Error c Error
Current 474 $34,419.57 $17,075.661 2.125 .112 5.378 .224
Salary

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