Newbie.

[graeme]

Hello,

I've received a lot of data as a .sav file and I'm trying 
out PSPP.  Not only are my statistic chops about 15 years 
out of date, but I'm also an SQL kind of guy, and so 
everything seems like "why can't I just use a where 
statement?  Apologies right of the bat for my uselessness.

If you need to know: psppire 0.6.2, on joliOS 1.2 (ya - 
not really very experienced with Linux either).

1. The data set is a fairly large survey on a set of 
attitudes.  I'm not even trying to do anything fancy like 
regression.  I just want to count the responses to a 
question (i.e. 203 said Chocolate, 402 said Vanilla).

2. the really advanced stuff is when I'd like to find out: 
of respondents who are both A and B, what is their 
preference of ice cream?

After google and the wiki, I thought I had some things 
figured out.  In the variable view the data is now changed 
to Nominal.  I seem to be getting the kind of results I'm 
looking for using the crosstabs, but there is one thing 
bugging me.  I should have a count of respondents, and it 
should be a  number, no decimal places (i.e. no half 
people responded to the survey).  But all my numbers have 
decimal places, leading me to think that I'm really, 
really not getting this.

I probably deserve a response like: get yourself to a 
stats class.  I can accept this.

Thanks,
graeme.