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  • Sofia Nteliopoulou
    Sofia Nteliopoulou uploaded the file Problem with importing survey data to SPSS in the group EDDE 806 Doctoral Research Seminar January 13, 2014 - 3:12am
    Hi everyone   I have already exported to SPSS my survey data [.sps & .dat files] from Limesurvey and now I am trying to import and run the script from SPSS but unsuccessfully. I followed all the instructions from the Limesurvey help...
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    • Colin Madland
      Colin Madland January 13, 2014 - 10:07am

      Hi Sofia,

      I responded by email as well, but thought I'd post this here for the benefit of more people who will most certainly encounter this problem... 

      When I exported my data, I first sent it to MS Excel so that I could get rid of all the extra rows that come from LimeSurvey. Then, fter I had cleaned it up, I loaded it into spss and it worked very nicely.
       
      Also, the first error in the SPSS log indicates that you have more variables than you are allowed with the student version of spss. You are only allowed to load 50 variables into any one .SAV file.
       
      To get around this, I had to load only those variables that I wanted to test into an individual SAV file. So if you have 75 variables and you want to compare #1-25 with #30-40, you will have to create a file just for that comparison. It is a real pain, but it worked for me because my quan analyses were quite basic.
       
      Depending on what you want to do with your data, you may be able to just use excel...it isn't as pretty or easy, but it can work.
       
      Colin
  • Sofia Nteliopoulou
    Sofia Nteliopoulou replied on the discussion topic Writing a Research Proposal in the group Centre for Distance Education (CDE) September 23, 2011 - 2:00am
    Hello Dr. Marti, Your comment was like an oasis in the desert! I have just made my desicion about choosing the thesis route and started thinking what may constitute a good topic for a thesis. I would be glad to participate in your workshop in case...