Republic of the Philippines

St. Anthony College of Roxas City

Sab Roque Extension, Roxas City
Capiz 5800

Name: Twinkle May Venus Instructor: Mr. Mark Anthony Blacano

Module 8: Presentation of Data

 Descriptive Statistic
- One of the most frequently used procedures in SPSS is descriptive statistic.
Use this procedure to get an idea of what your data would look like, because
it intends to describe the main features or the summary of the information
you have collected.

 Measures of Central Tendency

1. Mode- is the value that occurs most often in the given data set.
2. Median- is the middle value in a set of numbers or data arranged in order of magnitude.
3. Mean- is basically the average value of all the numbers (i.e., the sum of all values divided
by the total number of values).

 Meassures of Variability/Dispersion
- In this case, you would like to see how dispersed or spread the income is.

Using SPSS in Presenting Data

 Creating Descriptive and Summary Statistics in SPSS

The type of descriptive statistics that you can calculate depends on the level of measurement of
your variables. For simple description of nominal variables, use Frequencies; for more complex
ones, use Crosstabs. For simple description of interval or ratio variables, use Descriptives; for
more complex ones, use the Explore command.

1. From your SPSS window, click on Analyze menu.

2. Select Descriptive under the Descriptive Statistics menu.
3. Select the variable of interest.

4. Click on the Options button.

5. Check the boxes of the various statistics you would like to view, and then click Continue.

6. Click OK to finish.
From the SPSS output window, the statistics will be automatically displayed.
 Interpreting Results from Descriptive Statistics

Providing an interpretation of the results is no easy task. Based on the output generatyed and depending
on the statistics checked, you would see the results of the measures of central tendency (i.e., the mean),
dispersion and distribution. Which of them needs to be explained? Which of the numbers are important
in your paper?

N Minimum Maximum Mean Std. Variance

Deviation
Efficacy
Affecting
the 12 6 14 10.17 2.791 7.788
Activities of
Political
Party
Valid N
(listwise) 12

Because descriptive provide a general summary of what your data looks like, it is good to look at the
number of cases (N) and the minimum and maximum values. The mean is also provide and can be
interpreted depending on your predetermined interpretation of values. To see how the data values
deviate from the mean, check the standard deviation. For variability, variance is provided. So how should
the interpretation of results be stated? Consider the following statement:
 “The average (mean) political efficacy of the respondents (specified here) is 10.17, with a
standard deviation of 2.791. the lowest (minimum) level of efficacy is 6, and the highest (masimum)
being 14.”

Module 8.1 Read and Answer

Interpret the following descriptive statistics.

N Minimum Maximum Mean Std. Variance

Deviation
Measure of the
Numbers of Years of
a Person’s 12 2 23 11.92 7.064 49.902
Involvement in a
Political Party

Measure of Social
Distance between 12 1 22 10.83 6.873 47.242
the Respondents and
the Chair of Political
Party

Measure of
Knowledge about the 12 1 25 12.92 8.898 79.174
Affairs of the Party

Valid N (listwise) 12