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Sociology

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GSS - General Social Survey
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For more than four decades, the General Social Survey (GSS) has studied the growing complexity of American society. It is the only full-probability, personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in both social characteristics and attitudes currently being conducted in the United States. 

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Black Protestor in a COVID mask

SPSS Tutorials and Videos

How to Use SPSS
Published on Nov 30, 2017

This is the first in a series of eight videos that will introduce you to using SPSS for introductory statistics for people with little or no experience with SPSS. You will learn about the SPSS work space, how to navigate between Data View and Variable View, how to create variables, and how to modify properties of variables.