Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- THE EXAMPLE STUDY USED THROUGHOUT THE BOOK -- THE BOOK OUTLINE -- CHAPTER 2 UNDERTAKING A RESEARCH PROJECT -- THE RESEARCH PROCESS -- STAGE 1: THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH -- STAGE 2: SETTING UP THE STUDY -- STAGE 3: CARRYING OUT THE RESEARCH AND COLLECTING THE DATA -- STAGE 4: MAKING SENSE OF THE DATA -- STAGE 5: PRESENTING THE RESEARCH FINDINGS -- CHAPTER 3 WHAT ARE YOU MEASURING IN YOUR RESEARCH? -- DESCRIBING YOUR RESULTS -- LEVELS OF MEASUREMENT: NOMINAL, SCALE AND ORDINAL DATA -- CONSTRUCTING NOMINAL, SCALE OR ORDINAL OUTCOME MEASURES -- CODING YOUR DATA FOR INPUT INTO SPSS -- THE SPARCOTE STUDY -- CHAPTER 4 ENTERING DATA INTO SPSS -- A FIRST LOOK AT SPSS -- SETTING UP THE SPSS DATASET (YOUR RESULTS SPREADSHEET) -- ENTERING THE DATA INTO SPSS -- EDITING THE DATASET -- TRANSFERRING THE RESULTS FROM OTHER SOFTWARE INTO SPSS -- A FINAL CHECK OF YOUR DATASET -- CHAPTER 5 A FIRST LOOK AT THE RESULTS -- OPENING AN SPSS DATA FILE -- THE IBM SPSS STATISTICS VIEWER -- DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS FOR EACH VARIABLE -- THE FREQUENCIES COMMAND -- A FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE SPARCOTE STUDY RESULTS -- DESCRIBING THE RESULTS OF A SINGLE VARIABLE -- CHAPTER 6 CREATING TABLES -- CREATING TABLES IN SPSS -- CROSSTABULATING DATA -- THE CROSSTABS COMMAND -- INTRODUCTION TO CUSTOM TABLES -- CHAPTER 7 CREATING GRAPHS -- CHOOSING A CHART -- USING CHART BUILDER -- CREATE GRAPH - GENERATING GRAPHS FROM OUTPUT TABLES -- CHAPTER 8 EDITING TABLES AND GRAPHS FOR PRESENTATION -- EDITING A TABLE - PIVOT TABLE -- EDITING A CHART - CHART EDITOR -- EXPORTING TABLES AND GRAPHS TO OTHER APPLICATIONS -- CHAPTER 9 AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL TESTS IN SPSS -- WHY PERFORM A STATISTICAL TEST? -- UNDERTAKING STATISTICAL TESTS WITH SPSS