Hi dear friend Every one has good things. But my suggestion is to use SPSS.

Dear Vijay

I used SPSS and STATA for long time and I am advice you to use SPSS because it is powerful, multiple options, high accuracy and easy software.

Good Luck

I think it depends on your preferences on inputting commands because it is very common for you to input commands in STATA, while SPSS provides a user-friendly interface to you to direct click the bottoms in order to conduct statistical analysis.

Statistician may prefer R, SAS and STATA, whereas researchers without sound statistical background may prefer SPSS. Hope my answer helps you. Thanks.

Both of SPSS and STATA equivalently meritorious.

It depends on your efficiency of handling and on your choice .

Hello Vijay,

In my experience, Martin's response above is quite accurate. However, I would add that I think it is extremely important that the users of any statistics package have a good knowledge about why they are doing what they are doing. Personally, I really like SPSS, but I am also aware that it is easy to "press its buttons" and end up with output that is not sufficiently valid and, at times, quite silly.

All the best with whatever you choose.

Both are good. Yet, it depends upon the analysis of your choice. eg, I feel good with STATA for a lamda value in two way heckman whereas SPSS is good while data censor is prompted as in Tobit. Regards

SPSS is simple to use, user friendly, and easy to catch up.

I do agree with Robert Trevethan. Thanks to him.

I do also agree with Kezang Tshering . Thanks to him.

Use SAS, if it's accessible. You can't beat this software.

I never used SPSS.

Both are good.... Depends on your versatility

Thanks to Raj Chawla for his answer. However, I like to say in the similar tone as that of Taiwo Sogunle.

SPSS is good.

I was introduced first to STATA and there was no time to learn another tool. I did not want to blame my tools like the "proverbial" lazy farmer.

Every tool has its own quality and utility.

Thanks to Albert Otete for his comment.

SPSS is no doubt good as mentioned by Collette Brown.

But, STATA is also good.

My comment is that both are good. Each of them has own quality and utility.

Thanks to Collette Brown for his answer.

I have used both SPSS and STATA and I must admit both are unique tools. As a trainer, I usually start people with SPSS because the inter-phase is much more friendly to beginners and later advance them to STATA. As previously mention by Martin and others, your choice will be dependent on your background and interest. These days, I use STATA more often than SPSS.

Henry Duah is correct. My opinion is also like his opinion.

Thanks to Henry Duah.

Not only STATA and SPSS, there are other tools available for quantitative analysis like E-views, Systat, R etc., even in Excel also you can do the analysis. As for as your question is concerned, it is better to use a software that you already have some hands on experience. Both are equally good. SPSS is widely used compare to STATA, both the software’s are user friendly but in my view STATA is a little edge over SPSS.

Thanks to Ahmad Salman for his beautiful answer.

Thanks to Venu Prasad H D for his informative answer.

SPSS is easier to use, but if you want to write program in it , then it becomes lengthy.

But STATA has advantage on both. Their are many more analysis tools on STATA which SPSS is lacking.

But for Medium level research SPSS is good. But while working on advanced statistical methods , there will be requirements of STATA and R.

Ravi Jha has correctly mentioned the advantages and disadvantages of SPSS and STATA.

I do agree with him.

Thanks to him.

SPSS is more user friendly. But to enter the qualitative date in to a statistical package you need to prepare a likert scale to convert this qualitative data in to quantitative format. then only you can use SPSS. But in my knowledge Qualitative data is not for statistical analysis. Qualitative data is support to validate the quantitative results.

Pio Jude Navinthan is also correct. I agree with him. Thanks to him.

Comparing these two (SPSS and STATA), which one is good is a relative matter. Infact, rather than technical issue, the appropriateness depends on the situation - mostly on individual. From my side, the vote will go to SPSS as this software is much more user-friendly.

It depends totally on your type of analysis. SPSS is user friendly no doubt on that. However, after the inclusion of many features STATA is also becoming very user friendly and effective. Specially in case of Time Series Analysis and Panel Data Analysis Stata is very useful. For cross section analysis though SPSS is very common but the use of STATA is demanding.

Use both of them and see the results. In that case, you would find the difference between them.

They are equally the same and it depends on your expertise, preference, or versatility .

SPSS is users friendly and STATA is good if you want to have advance statistical techniques like modeling concepts

As a trained statistician I believe STATA is for more precise results especially for any significant influence of x over y particularly at less than 10% probability. Of course SPSS is quite user friendly.

I can simply comment that both are equally strong competitors.

I would go for SPSS because it is user friendly.

I think STATA is one of the multitude of different statistical tools that is chosen by analysts, whatsoever depending on data pattern.

Agree with you Dr Mirza Mohammad Didarul Alam ,Dr Md NAZMUS Sadekin and Dr Md. Ariful Islam

I agree with Mr. Abdullah Nooru

It depends on what you want to used it for? Both are good, but I preferred SPSS. However, better and advanced software that can do many things that these two software cannot do, such SEM PLS, and AMOS. These two are also wonderful, I think you can try them out too as well. Good luck!

For me, Stata is way superior over SPSS in that it has a multitude of inbuilt statistical techniques (than SPSS) which can be applied depending on the nature of the data. It can be used for complex statistical analysis.

I agree with Sileshi Abebe. STATA is superior to SPSS in that precision in the result is more while the data analyzed using STATA in situations like bring out the LEMDA or the CENSORED value as in ToBIT

So far as the precision in the result is concerned, my assessment is that the precision in findings/results provided by STATA is usually little bit more than that provided by SPSS in quantitative analysis.

Accordingly, STATA can be considered to be little bit superior to SPSS in respect of precision in the result.

Thus, my view is almost similar to that of Sileshi Abebe and Devarajan Sundaraarajan.

However, I feel that SPSS is more friendly to the users. Thus my feelings is similar to that of Haji Saediman.