Re: Newbie.

[graeme]

Thanks - I will update PSPP.  I did try using frequency 
too - and I don't seem to be able to generate a simple 
count.  Perhaps I'm not using the right function - 
obviously I avoided generating a mean for the data, but 
the closest thing that made sense was "sum".

Thanks for your help.

On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:33:22 +0000
 John Darrington <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 12:29:19PM -0700, 
> address@hidden wrote:
> > If you need to know: psppire 0.6.2, on joliOS 1.2 (ya - 
> > not really very 
> > experienced with Linux either).
>
> 0.6.2 is quite old, so you might want to move to a later 
> version.
>
> > 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.
>
> If I understand you correctly, it sounds like you should 
> be using FREQUENCIES
> and not CROSSTABS.
>
> J'
>
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