1- descriptive stats
get single number of SPSS like mode medium mean and SD
how you do this in SPSS
analyze, descriptive stats, descriptives - select variavles to analyze and ok
leads to output file showing descriptive stats
2- frequency
how many missing var
frequency table
valid percent=when missing data is excluded= use if no missing data
percent values= missing data
look at mean to
assume representative data
if mean is same do sensible descriptive stats
spss analyse mean
analaysze, compare means, mean
3-nromal distribution
graph, histograons- varibale into variable box ok