n   Using SPSS, create a simple frequency distribution using your SPSS data file. Double-click the file to start SPSS and open your data file.

¨  Under the Analyze menu, select Descriptive Statistics>Frequencies…

¨  Select the variable age from the left box and click the arrow to move it to the Variable(s) box on the right.

¨  Click Format… and in the left column (Order by) choose Descending values. Click Continue.

¨  Click OK.

¨  An output file opens and the simple frequency distribution is displayed, something looking like this:

n   The values of the variable (age) are listed in the left column. The second column (frequency) contains the number of subjects with each value.

¨  The other columns tell you the percent of people with each value, as well as the cumulative percent moving from the top down (e.g., 48.9% of the subjects have an age of 47 or less in this example).