Dear Farkhanda,

It really depends upon your research question, the design of your study and whether you have scales of questions you want to summarise by a dimension reduction technique (and whether your scales are already validated).

I would recommend starting in a spreadsheet like Excel rather than SPSS in order to prepare your raw data and carry out some descriptive statistics. You can then import your data into SPSS. Your raw data should have the variable names in the top row and the records for each respondent in the rows below.

SPSS can be used for dimension reduction techniques, more advanced descriptive statistics, assumption checking and statistical testing.

Actually, i conducted survey through google form and collected responses now all responses in spread sheet . but i want to analysis by SPSS and i am feeling little bit difficulty. i have 24 multiple questions with different responses. Now what should i do? Should i complete this analysis on Excel or not? I am trying to understand the basic functions of SPSS. I don't know what will happend

Dear Farkhana,

Thanks for the update but you have still not explained the aim of your research or how it is expressed in the design of your questionnaire or a research question. Without knowing this it is very hard to be more specific.

Respected Samuels,

I am a student and i conducted research through google form. this data is the part of my thesis and i want to analysis this data. If you have any suggestion i am waiting for your humble suggestion