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Nightmare SPSS stats question

  • 21-10-2011 12:43pm
    #1
    parc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 792 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys, just wondering if you can help me out with this.

    I'm exploring the London Borough Elections for two years (2006 and 2010)

    I'm preforming chi-square test on them but as some parties like BNP have counts less than 5, I need to filter these out on my data-set to contain the 3 biggest parties (Conservatives, Labour and Lib-Dems)

    The instrustions they give us are pretty useless and go along the liines of

    > Go to "Data-select cases"
    > Select "If condition is satisfied" and click "If" button to define requirements
    > We want to select only cases where the Party is one of the big three; you need to construct an appropriate statement or formula in the top-right box to achieve this (Hint; use OR to connect multiple options)

    Now I have actually no notion how to do what's stated in bold. Just spent an hour looking and can't find how I can filter out these smaller cases and have the 3 big parties.

    Can someone help? Thanks!


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  • #2
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    Something like "If "count" >=5" should filter out those whose count is below 5 or something like that.

    Or if you have the a variable for party, say 1=Tories, 2=Lab, 3= LD, 4= BNP, 5=Socialist, etc, you could do if "party" = 1 or 2 or 3.


  • #3
    parc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 792 ✭✭✭parc


    I actually figured it out after 2 hours of messing around with it. so frustrating

    On the last 3 questions and stuck again.

    Question is: For voting patterns in inner and outer london, is there a difference between 2006 and 2010 between the 3 largest parties (Labour, Conservative, Lib-Dems)?

    So I have to analyse the 3 parties Inner London 2006 and 2010 then do the same for the outer part

    How do I programe it so all I have is Inner London for the 3 parties?

    In "Select Cases:If" I use Location='inner' OR Party='cons' etc...BUT this includes the 3 parts in the outer london area. I know that the years will be the layer.

    But what do I need to write to take outer-london out of the equation...OR and AND doesn't work for me...

    :(


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