SPSS is this complicated?

jripper

Hi all, i'm trying to use spss to do something that i thought was simple but yet i've been tearing my hair out trying to figure it out. I'm a proficient google searcher but yet i couldn't find any help as i'm probably using the wrong terminology.

Anyway, from my data file i want to do one simple thing; show the amount of male and female respondents in ireland that answered a given question 'both sexes should contribute to household income?'.

So first i redefined 'country' so it's ireland only. Then i thought to get what i'm looking for i could just do a crosstab with 'country' and 'sex' in the column and 'both sexes should contribute to household income' in the row.



As seen in the picture this comes out as two tables instead of one as desired, and seems to include the respondents of all countries. So is there anyway i can somehow make a new variable or something, that consists of the amount of female and male respondents in ireland?

Thanks for any info or advice, it's invaluable!

the west wing

I don't know the answer, but when I had to use SPSS I found this book amazingly helpful: Discovering statistics using SPSS : (and sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll) / Andy Field. It's in the UCD library. It should be able to help you.

Benincasa

If you go to Data-Select Cases, you can opt to select to run your analysis only on Irish respondents, then run the crosstabs - that sounds to me like it might work.

jripper

Thanks for the reply Ben,

I figured out a roundabout way of doing it. I went into analyse>tables>custom table and from there it allows you to cross compare variables and also put variables inside other variables. Either way, i stopped pulling my hair out. Thanks!