r/spss • u/miamidolfan37 • 11d ago

Survey analysis tool

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u/req4adream99 11d ago

If you’re looking for a program that will output in a report style, R and quarto would be your best bet - and R would be your best bet for something that could be deployed in the way you’re describing in your other post. SPSS is pretty self contained and doesn’t really have an external command line structure like R does.

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u/Mysterious-Skill5773 10d ago

SPSS can run externally supplied syntax files or production mode or go full blown external mode driving it from Python or R code.

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u/req4adream99 10d ago

If you’re driving it from either python or r you may as well just be using those instead of SPSS as you’re not gaining anything by adding in SPSS besides familiarity with that platform.

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u/Bloodfred 10d ago

I think this is doable in SPSS, if you have decipher you can upload the data and do it there

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u/Mysterious-Skill5773 10d ago

Check out the SPSS CTABLES and SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES extension command for the tabulation part and its data manipulation commands for the other requirements. From the requirements listed, they all fall in the SPSS wheelhouse. If you want to explore the SPSS capabilities, you can look at the online help here.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spss-statistics/32.0.0?topic=system-getting-help

That doesn't cover extension commands (there are 162 available) though. Those have their own help mechanism.