Microsoft Word research method fm doc

Exercise:
Once you create the data entry format, use the CHECK module to customize your entry for 
some of the data values. 
Analyzing Data 
• ANALYSIS produces lists, frequencies, tables (cross tabulations), statistics and 
graphs.

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• Move the cursor to "ANALYSIS of data" and press the Enter key. 
• Use the "READ" command to choose a dataset. 
Example: Read birthwet.rec 
• Once 
your 
.Rec
file is retrieved, you can perform the tasks explained above. 
Example
freq
age 
 freq sex 
 tables age sex
List
sex
Update age sex etc. 
• If you press the function key "F2”, you will see the various "commands" that perform 
different tasks. 
• If you press the function key "F3”, you will see the list of “variables" that you have 
created using the EPED program. 
• If 
you 
press
the function key "F5", your output will go to the printer. If you press it 
again,
the output will go to the screen. 
DEFINE and RECODE
 
- 
These commands are very important in facilitating the analysis of 
data. 
• DEFINE allows creation of new variables for use in analysis.
• Variable names in the DEFINE statement must be 10 or fewer characters. 
• Variable names do not begin with a number. 
Example
:
DEFINE age1 ## (a newly created variable) 

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This could be used in a RECODE statement to provide labels for a numerically coded age 
variable. 
• The RECODE command is used to form several categories (groups).