SPSS

Learning LISSY
LISSY Starter Kit
Accessing the data: the Job Submission Interface (JSI)

The Basics: LIS
Running descriptive statistics: sample and population values
Using subroutines and loops to simplify submissions involving several datasets
Combining datasets

The Basics: LWS
Differences in concepts of net worth Asset participation

Demographics and Education
Children (household-level)
Gender (person-level)
Comparing education on the person-level and household-level
Comparing educational outcomes

Labour Market
Calculating employment rates
Calculating unemployment rates
Person- and job-specific characteristics of employment

The Basics: Income Distribution I
Equivalence scales
Poverty lines and poverty rates
Elderly and child poverty rates

Intermediate: Income Distribution II
Dealing with extreme values: trimming and bottom- / top- coding
Inequality: the gini index
Sensitivity analysis using different concepts of income
Sensitivity analysis using different equivalence scales

Intermediate: Stacked Data
A cross-national comparison using stacked data

Download sample files (LIS and LWS)
LIS-US04 Household dataset
LIS-US04 Individual dataset

LIS-IT04 Household dataset
LIS-IT04 Individual dataset

LWS-IT02 Household dataset
Download SPSS Self-Teaching Package

Additional Links
Common mistakes using LISSY

Helpful Links to Learn SPSS
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/default.htm
http://www.spss.com/