Data Management and Analysis in IBM/SPSS

Dear Students,

Welcome to the Module of Computer Application and Data Management, Unit of Data Management and Analysis. The Module of Computer Applications and Data Management is a Module for the Year four students of Environmental Health Department. The Module is divided into two unit : Computer Applications and Data Management. The unit of Data management and analysis consists of using IBM SPSS to create a health data set, perform relevant data exploration and data analysis. The unit pays special consideration of the following:

• Structure of a questionnaire (DHS Rwanda 2014-2015 questionnaires): Consent forms, Approvals, questionnaire title, and questions ;
• Familiarize with IBM SPSS window: Data view & variable view
• Explore different menus in IBM SPSS
• Entering and importing data in IBM/SPSS
• Transforming & generating new variables from the existing ones in IBM/SPSS
• Perform descriptive & inferential statistics and related data interpretation: frequency tables, measures of central location (mean, mode, median), measures of variability ( standard deviation, variance, standard error of the mean); range, minimum, maximum, IQR; generating graphs (histograms, pie charts,..), use of chart builder; cross tabulations (2 X2 tables),, chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, degrees of freedom, p-value and its interpretation; Simple linear regression; Correlation; One-way ANOVA; Use of Bonferroni test; Independent sample t-test
• Run a customized data analysis: select cases, merging data sets, perform customized analysis: Select cases in IBM SPSS and run related analysis; and merging datasets in IBM SPSS (merging files)