Course: Questionnaire Design and Data Analysis in SPSS (4202-421)

Persons:

• Prof.Dr. Sebastian Hess (verantwortlich)
• Tanja Strohäker (begleitend)
• Gudrun Mayer (verwaltend)

Type of Course:

lecture with seminar

In-Class Hours Per Week:

4

Contents:

The course will provide an introduction to questionnaire design, descriptive statistics and inference statistics using SPSS.
The students will learn how to create a proper questionnaire to avoid mistakes. In the second step we will introduce basic statistical concepts using SPSS.
Namely cross tables, graphical representation of data, location measures and diffusion measures. Finally the students will learn how to apply and interpret inference statistics, correlations and basic regression analysis. After this course the students should be able to create a questionnaire, transmit data into SPSS and create valuable statistical outputs.

Literature:

• Raab-Steiner, E., Benesch, M. (2012) Der Fragebogen. Von der Forschungsidee zur SPSS-Auswertung(3rd Edition). UTB Verlag, Stuttgart.
• Field, A. (2013) Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (4th Edition). Sage, Los Angeles.
• Backhaus, K. et al (2013) Multivariate Analysemethoden(13th Edition). Springer, Heidelberg.
• Hair, J.F. et al (2014) Multivariate Data Analysis(7th Edition). Pearson, Harlow.

Location:

Hohenheim

Module:

• 4202-420 Questionnaire Design and Data Analysis in SPSS (semi-elective)

eLearning:

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