These files are saved as plain text and almost any text editor can open them, but with a file extension of .sps. The Output Viewer shows you tables of statistical output and any graphs you create. Through collecting the data from the output files of SPSS software, researchers can use the data into their writing in order to provide the statistical information about the database. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Furthermore, you can organize your data in SPSS by assigning properties to different variables. Statistical results will show up in the Output Viewer. It provides you various statistical capabilities. The first attribute of each variable is its Name. Moreover, people also faced difficulties in making systematic arrangement of statistical data, that made people unable to get accurate database while they actually need the quantitative data. The SPSS is used one of the most preferable data collection tools which assist researchers to use this tool in terms of collecting statistical database in systematic manner. SPSS (Statistical package for the social sciences) is the set of software programs that are combined together in a single package. Data values may be displayed as either the actual value or as a formatted value. You can switch the Data View between formatted and unformatted data by clicking on the Value Labels button on the Toolbar, the fourth button from the right when in the Data View. The tables of the Output Viewer are saved (click File - Save or Save As) with a file type of .spv, which can only be opened with SPSS software. Moreover, through using this software people are able to arrange their files and document of numeric data in safe manner which assist people to get the hard copy of these data when they required. The basic variable types are either numeric or string. As with the other types of windows, you can have more than one Syntax Editor open and the active window is marked with a tiny orange plus sign. The SPSS software is one of the most important tools which assist researchers to conduct any statistical tests by using the software. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The Output Viewer also allows you to edit and print your results.

When you open an SPSS data file, what you see is a working copy of your data. In the Variable View you can see and edit the information that defines each variable (sometimes called meta-data) in your data set: each column of the Data View is described by a row of the Variable View. To edit objects, double-click on them in the tables pane. Hidden objects are not printed, but are saved with the output file. To select an object to work with, you can either click on it in the tables pane, or click on the corresponding entry in the outline pane. Like the spread sheet software, SPSS also has the data entry screen in which researchers can put different statistical variables in terms of calculating quantitative data.