Hi Kelvyn. I'm not sure if the level is right for your students, but take a look at Raynald Levesque's book.

• http://www.spsstools.net/en/resources/spss-programming-book/

Cheers,

Bruce

Bruce

Thanks for a very quick response - probably a bit too hard and detailed but I will have a proper look and see

Dear Kelvyn,

I've written some training courses on SPSS which include instructions on data preparation but they are not publicly available. This is the only workshop I've been able to donate: http://statstutor.ac.uk/resources/uploaded/7spsspdf.zip.

Hi Kelvyn. I feared that Levesque's book might be too advanced. There are several good websites with tutorials. Perhaps some of them will suffice. Here are a couple to look at.

• https://www.spss-tutorials.com/ -- Click the menu icon at the top right and select Editing Data
• https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/spss/modules/ -- see Basic and Intermediate data management tutorials

Cheers,

Bruce

Thanks everybody - they look really useful.

My digging found this

An Introduction to Secondary Data Analysis with IBM SPSS Statistics

14 Jan 2017 by John Macinnes in Paperback

I will report back.

I also found some discussion of the SPSS syntax for converting person-level to person-period data:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.soft-sys.stat.spss/PolEpyETPD0

I have now acquired the Macinnes book and it is pretty close to what I wanted .

Thanks again for all the suggestions.