Is Statical Package for Social Sciences Useful in the analysis of quantitative or qualitative data or for the analysis of both?

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David L Morgan

As the name indicates SPSS does statistics, and thus is limited to quantitative analyses.

Yves Costa Netto

The nature of the quantitative research and the large number of sample demanded implies (among other things) the use of statistics techniques. So quantitative is the answer.

Armando Simon

Quantitative. However, there are times that qualitative data can be transformed into quantitative, but you have to be very careful.

Abdul-Kadri Yahaya

SPSS means Statistical Package for Social Sciences. As the meaning suggest, Statistics has to do with quantitative. As such SPSS is a tool for processing quantitative data.