SPSS #1: Understanding and Describing Data You will be working with the data in
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SPSS #1: Understanding and Describing Data You will be working with the data in Blackboard labeled 'Data Set for SPSS Assignment #1' (in the 'Data Sets' folder).The data comes from the CATO Institutes's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project. The data set is a record of media-reported police misconduct incidents in New York State in 2010 aggregated to the county-level (in other words, recorded by county). 1) First, we must create a variable CrimeRate (do not add a space between the words). To do so, go to the Transform key and scroll down to Compute Variable. Here you will see a window. Type CrimeRate and in the Numeric expression box, type: Crime_2010 / Totalpop2010 * 100000 . (YOU MUST type it exactly. Copy from the screen if you have trouble).
variable data
FIPSCode Restricted Numeric 5 0 FIPS Code None None 11 Right Scale Input
Geography Numeric 8 2 Rural, Suburban, Urban county {1.00, Rural}... None 8 Right Nominal Input
Misconduct Numeric 7 0 Total number of misconduct incidents in county None None 9 Right Scale Input
Totalpop2010 Numeric 12 0 Total population None None 12 Right Scale Input
HispanicPct2010 Numeric 17 2 Hispanic Population Percent of Total Population None None 17 Right Scale Input
WhitePct2010 Numeric 17 2 White Population Percent of Total Population None None 17 Right Scale Input
BlackPct2010 Numeric 17 2 Black Population Percent of Total Population None None 17 Right Scale Input
Unemployment09 Numeric 9 2 Unemployment Rate in 2009 (BLS) None None 9 Right Scale Input
Crime_2010 Numeric 8 0 Total Part I index crime in 2010 (UCR) None None 12 Right Scale Input
Explanation / Answer
To create any variable in SPSS you must go to variable view tab in SPSS. there you can see you can create name value your variable as per your requirement.
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