Opening Excel files in SPSS is simple but the next steps are often challenging:

• setting value & variable labels;
• converting string variables;
• setting decent variable names.

This tutorials shows how to get it done for 2 different Excel files.

You can set missing values for string variables in SPSS but this doesn't work as it should. This tutorial walks you through some problems and fixes.

Some tranformation for making variables more normally distributed are

• Square/Cube Root
• Logarithmic
• Power
• Inverse
• Hyperbolic Arcsine
• Arcsine

This quick overview shows how/when to apply these transformations in SPSS and compares their results.

Get things done faster in SPSS by understanding its three basic command types: transformations, procedures and other SPSS commands.

Overview of all SPSS commands in a single Googlesheet. Includes

• links to tutorials on commands;
• command types;
• required license;
• SPSS versions;
• basic purpose.

Many easy options have been proposed for combining the values of categorical variables in SPSS. However, the real information is usually in the value labels instead of the values. This tutorial proposes a simple trick for combining categorical variables and automatically applying correct value labels to the result.

On 19 June 2020, SPSS version 27 was released. Although it has some useful new features, most of these have been poorly implemented.

This review quickly walks you through the main improvements and their limitations.

In SPSS, "SUM(v1,v2)" is not always equivalent to "v1 + v2".

This tutorial explains the difference and shows how to make the right choice here.

SPSS statistical functions are mostly straightforward. This tutorial walks you through the main ones and points out some tips, tricks and pitfalls.

This tutorial explains and demonstrates SPSS' main numeric functions. Some tips and tricks will be included along the way.

Using SPSS keywords, especially TO and ALL greatly speeds up a myriad of typical tasks. This tutorial walks you through SPSS main keywords and points out how they can save time and effort.

SPSS dataset logic is not always logical. However, for working proficiently with datasets, just a handful of basics is sufficient. These are explained in this tutorial.

How to draw one or many samples from your data in SPSS? This tutorial demonstrates some simple ways for doing so. We'll point out some tips, tricks and pitfalls along the way.

Survey sampling: short introduction to main steps and concepts such as the target population, sampling frame and non response.