SPSS Tutorial

- How to do a Chi Square -

1) Select Statistics: Summarize: Crosstabs. (Figure 1). A menu like that in Figure 2 should be displayed.

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Figure 2:

2) From the variable list you now choose your variables.

3) Send them to the appropriate place, either rows or columns boxes.

4) Now we still have to tell SPSS that we want a chi square done. Click on "Statistics." This should bring up the menu in Figure 3

Figure 3:

5) Check "Chi-square" and "Correlations." Click Continue. Then click OK. We're ready to get some output.

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6) Output. Figure 4.This is a crosstabulation table that tells you how many of which of your categories are related to the other category(s).

7) This is the value of the chi-square statistic.

8) This is your degrees of freedom.

9) Here is your significance (p-value).