Reference no: EM133011113 , Length: 2500 Words

ANALYSIS OF DATA USING SPSS

For this task students will demonstrate an understanding of how to use the statistical analysis tools presented and used in the SPSS workshops.

SPSS is short for Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and was developed by three students at the University of Stanford (Norman Nie, Tex Hull and Dale Bent) in 1968. Initially only for distribution within their home university, the publication of the first manual made SPSS widely known and used. Created for IBM mainframe computers, versions for most other mainframe brands and other computer platforms were developed. SPSS Inc. was the founded in 1975 and acquired by IBM in 2009; it is now fully integrated into the IBM Corporation Business Analytics Software portfolio1.

SPSS is used by researchers for complex statistical data analysis and most of the top marketing research agencies use SPSS to analyse survey data and mine text data. It is also widely used as the preferred quantitative data analysis tool amongst academics.

Attitudes of students towards entrepreneurship

A SPSS database has been provided on the LMS system and a copy of the original questionnaire to gauge the attitudes of students towards entrepreneurship is reproduced in Appendix D. Using the questionnaire provided students are to analyse the data by describing the sample characteristics (SPSS Exercise 4) and conducts SPSS tests (SPSS Exercises 5-9) for a series of hypotheses.

Using the exercises in the SPSS workshops as a guide formulate the hypotheses from amongst the variables available in the questionnaire and conduct the statistical analysis as described in SPSS Exercises 5 to 9. The report content results section contains additional information for this assessment task.

Report the findings using tables and figures (do not duplicate information) and make recommendations.

Report content

• Cover page with title, name of author, and student ID .etc.
• Table of contents
• Introduction (purpose of this report)
• Results
• Describe the characteristics of the sample using descriptive statistics (SPSS Exercise 4).
• Conduct a reliability analysis of a set of variables (SPSS Exercise 9) to measure an abstract construct that you will later use as a variable in a regression analysis.
• State the null and alternative version of each hypotheses as well as the dependent and independent variables (questions) to be used in the SPSS analysis. As you will need to use each of the SPSS Exercises 5-8 you should have four null hypotheses to test.
• Report whether rejecting the null hypothesis and why.
• Provide a conclusion based on the results.
• References from literary and industry resources to support the proposed research. References should be cited in the text and listed in this section of the report in the discipline sanctioned Harvard Referencing Style

Word limit: 2500 words

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