What Is SPSS And Its Importance?

A few days ago, my friend Trina called me asking me where she can get an SPSS Certificate. Trina works for a leading Survey Company. I asked her why she was suddenly interested in getting the certification.

“There is a promotion at work and the manager has insisted that an SPSS certificate can get me the job. I have all the other qualifications except the certificate and I do not want to miss out on this chance, plus the salary is much more than I earn now,” She explained.

There is nothing frustrating as having one thing impede you from getting something you want to do so bad; in this case, a promotion.

Short courses have proven to be the fastest way to climb the career ladder. So, before I go any further on why SPSS was important for Trina let’s discuss; what is SPSS?

SPSS is short for Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, and it’s used by various kinds of researchers for complex statistical data analysis. The SPSS software package was created for the management and statistical analysis of social science data.

SPSS is the most popular statistical package which can perform highly complex data manipulation and analysis with simple instructions. SPSS is user-friendly software and easy to use for beginners and also helps in the analysis even when the data set goes larger.

Let’s now explore on importance of SPSS.

1.  Analyzing Statistical Data

Since Trina works in a survey company, SPSS is an extremely powerful tool for manipulating and deciphering survey data. SPSS also offers data documentation, which allows researchers to store a metadata dictionary. This metadata dictionary acts as a centralized repository of information pertaining to the data, such as meaning, relationships to other data, origin, usage, and format.

2.  SPSS Software is Easy to Adapt

For a beginner such as Trina who is versatile and quite weak in the software part, she will prefer SPSS software for her analysis since SPSS gives a perfect graphical representation and also an appropriate result for the data that has been entered.

SPSS is just a drag and drop process that has almost all basic and some advanced statistical analysis which helps the one to easily adapt to this software and can do the analysis part and attain their result.

3. Provides Solutions For Data Management

With SPSS, Trina can easily perform file reshaping, and case selection, and create derived data. Using the SPSS syntax language to import, organize and manipulate data substantially is more efficient time-wise and has the dual advantages of simple repeatability and of providing an audit trail for your work.

4. A Better organization of the output

The output SPSS has is usually kept apart from the data, by storing all the results in a separate file. This separate file is different from the file in which the data is stored.

This shows you how organized the software is; when you use SPSS, you will not have to worry about overwriting any other information by accident.

Do you now see why it was important for Trina to have SPSS certification?

I referred her to this one SPSS certification training in Nairobi and was pleased with their classes. She now has the certificate and even got a chance to be promoted at her workplace.

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