Question

A researcher is gathering data on the 50 states. She wants to actually enter the name of the state into the data matrix as one of the variables in her data set. What type of SPSS variable should that be?

Answer 1

Answer: String variables

Explanation:

SPSS means Statistical Package for Social Sciences.

The SPSS has only two variables namely:

1. String variables which includes numbers,letters and other characters.

The string variables cannot perform calculations. It is basically used to type names of people, age,occupation,home addresses,email addresses e.t.c Which is what is what the researcher was trying to do.

2. Numeric variables which include only numbers. It can perform calculations too using mathematical operations like addition,multiplication,division and subtraction.