   SPSS for Windows 
   Release 6.0.1
   Student Version
   October 22, 1993



1.  Nonstandard Video Drivers

    a) The Chart Editor will automatically query your display driver for its 
    logical PPI (pels per inch) and resolution when a chart is created.
    If the PPI is the standard VGA value but the resolution is greater than 
    640x480, it will scale the fonts based on the driver-supplied resolution.
    For instance, if the driver is running at 800x640, the PPI value will be 
    scaled up by 1.25 (800/640).

    Adding the line:

    NoAdjustSVGA=1

    to the [spsswin] section of your SPSSWIN.INI file will disable this
    feature.

    b) Some graphics accelerator cards have problems with a graphics technique
    called "double buffering." This technique is used in the 3-D scatterplots
    in SPSS. If major problems (e.g., system hanging) occur when using a
    graphics accelerator card, add the following line:

    NoDoubleBuffering=1

    to the [hoops] section of your SPSSWIN.INI file to disable this feature.

2.  3-D Scatterplot Spikes

    In 3-D scatterplots with spikes turned on, no attempt is made to ensure 
    that the spikes are drawn at the depth in the chart that would be 
    consistent with their coordinates.  If you think of the 3-D space
    projected on the surface of the screen, the spikes are in the correct
    location, but the front-behind relationship is not preserved.  This
    is because calculating the exact depth ordering is very time consuming.
    If you want the depth relationship to be exact, add the following line
    to the [spsswin] section of your spsswin.ini file:

    PSZSLOW=1

    This is likely to slow down the 3-D plot considerably; therefore, you
    should probably remove it when the depth relationship is not essential.


3. Known Problems List

    a) If SPSS runs out of disk space while performing a Save to an
    existing file, the original file will be deleted.  You should free some
    disk space and try again.

    b) If SPSS runs out of disk space while a procedure is inserting high-
    resolution charts into the Carousel, it will warn you that it is out of
    disk space and can only produce low-resolution charts.  However, all
    previously produced high-resolution charts will be lost. 
 
    c) If you are using any disk compression software, and if the free
    storage on your PC is near the minimum required to accommodate SPSS at
    installation time, SPSS may not be able to detect an insufficient disk
    space condition until well into the installation process.  Free up
    some disk space and try again.

    d) It is possible to crash SPSS by prematurely removing the floppy
    disk containing your data while SPSS still has the file open.  In all
    cases, an alert box will be posted asking you to return the disk to
    the drive.

    e) The install program will allow users NOT to install some statistical
    procedures that they don't plan to use.  The corresponding menu items on
    the Statistics and/or Graphs menu will then be removed.  However, some
    menu items generate commands for multiple statistical procedures.  
    Choosing not to install a procedure may cause some unexpected menu items 
    to be removed from the system.  The "Sort" procedure is used in several
    menu items.  It should always be installed.  The following is an 
    exception:


    -   The "Pearson Correlations" menu requires both "Correlations" and
        "Partial Correlations" to be installed.

4. Data Files with SPSS for Windows Student Version

     The following data files are included with the software and are placed in
     the directory where SPSS for Windows Student Version is installed
     (usually C:\SPSSSV).

   EMPLOYEE.SAV
     The employee file contains data on 474 employees of a company.  It is
     described in Chapter 5 of the SPSS for Windows Student Version manual.


   INVENTOR.SAV
     The inventory file contains data on daily inventory of power supplies.
     It is used in the example on exponential smoothing in the SPSS for
     Windows Student Version manual.


   REALEST.SAV
     The real estate file contains real estate survey data used extensively for
     illustrations and problems in

     Basic Business Statistics, Concepts and Applications
     Mark L. Berenson and David M. Levine
     Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992

     The survey covered 322 homes in two suburban New York counties.


   WELECTR.SAV
     This file contains data for a study designed to identify factors
     associated with coronary heart disease (CHD).  In this study, 2,107 male
     employees of Western Electric with no history of coronary heart
     disease were followed for 20 years, and the occurrence of heart
     disease was monitored. Each man in the study is represented by a case
     in the file.  The file WELECTR.SAV contains 240 of the cases.


   CLOSENES.SAV
     These data are from a psychological study that was published in
     1992. The full description of the study, including the IOS scale, is in

    "Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale and the Structure of 
     Interpersonal Closeness."
     Arthur Aron, Elaine N. Aron, and Danny Smollan
     1992, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 596-612.

     A variety of measures of closeness were administered to a group of
     college students.  They were asked to think of their closest, most
     intimate relationship and answer a series of questions about it.

     The data set in this file excludes cases with any missing values on the 
     major variables. Thus, the results of analyses could be slightly 
     different from those found in the article, in which all cases relevant 
     to an analysis were usually included. Also, in the published paper, 
     some of the variables were transformed prior to analysis.

     The variables are as follows:

     YOURSEX   Subject's own gender

     YOURAGE   Subject's own age

     SHAVER    Score on Hazan and Shaver's single item measure of
               adult attachment style:
               1=secure; 2=avoidant; 3=anxious-ambivalent.

     RELNAME   Whether the relationship described is with a family member,
               a nonromantic friend, or a romantic partner.

     XSEX      Partner's gender

     XAGE      Partner's age

     YRSKNOWN  Years known (Subjects indicated years and months.  Months 
               were converted to fractions of years and rounded off to
               the nearest 0.01).

     IOS       Subject's rating of the relationship on the IOS Scale
               (that is, the Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale, a
               pictorial measure of how close one sees oneself to
               one's  partner--from 1, not at all close, to 7, very
               close).

     FRQSCALE  Subject's rating of the relationship on the Frequency  
               subscale of Berscheid et al.'s Relationship Closeness 
               Inventory (RCI), a measure of how much time was spent with 
               the partner in a typical week, with 1 representing very
               little time and 10 a great deal of time. (Subjects actually
               indicated the number of minutes spent together, and these 
               were converted to a 10-point scale using a procedure
               developed by Berscheid et al.)

     DIVSCALE  Subject's rating of the number of activities done together; 
               this is the score on the Diversity subscale of the RCI, with 
               1 representing few and 10 representing many. (Based on subjects'
               checklists of possible activities, in which the number checked
               was converted to a 10-point scale.)

     STRSCALE  Subject's score on the Strength subscale of the RCI, which is
               based on a series of answers to questions about how much the
               other person influences one's life, with 1 being low and 10 high.

     SUBJTOT   Answers to two questions about how close one feels to one's
               partner (the sum of two 7-point scales) ranging from 2, low
               closeness, to 14, high closeness.

     STERNTOT  Answers to a series of questions about how intimate one feels
               with one's partner, a subscale of a measure developed by
               Sternberg.  High scores indicate high intimacy.

     STILLIN   Subjects indicating they were in a romantic relationship were 
               contacted by telephone 3 months later to see if they were still in
               the relationship with their partner.  "y" indicates they were still
               in the relationship, "n" that they were no longer in the relationship.
               Note that only members of the romantic group were contacted and that 
               not all of them could  be reached.



 CONGRESS.SAV
     The congress file contains historical data on the members of the first
     Congress of the United States.  The data are survey type and were obtained 
     from standard historical references. The data file was developed in conjunction 
     with the book

     Historian: Building a New Nation in 1789
     (in progress)
     by Donald R. Hetzner, State University College at Buffalo, Buffalo NY

     In the file are demographic data on the members of the first Congress
     and their roll call votes on seven critical bills. The data can be used 
     for political, social, and economic investigations of the First Congress. 
     Some of the SPSS procedures you can use with these data include: 
     Frequencies, Explore, and Crosstabs.  You can perform crosstabulations 
     on subcategories by splitting the file.  For crosstabulations, you can 
     group the data by recoding into groups--for example, you can use age groups.  
     You can also produce charts, including histograms and bar charts.

     The variables can be identified by their variable labels and
     value labels.
     Discussion of the variables for roll call votes follows:

     CAPITOL  Vote on the location of a national capitol.  This bill established 
              a permanent site on the Potomac River.  Passage was associated with 
              the vote on assumption of state debts.

     EXISETAX Vote on the excise tax.  The Revenue bill established tax districts 
              that overlapped state boundaries, expanded the President's power of 
              appointment, and placed an excise tax on whisky.

     FORAFFS  Vote on department of foreign affairs. The purpose of this bill was to 
              establish a department of foreign affairs.

     OPENDOOR Vote on a Senate open door policy. The purpose of this bill was to 
              determine whether the Senate doors should be open during legislative 
              debate.

     STADEBTS Vote on assumption of the states' debts.  This bill was for the federal 
              government to assume the debts of the states.  Its passage was associated 
              with the vote on the location of the capitol.

     USBANK   Vote on a United States Bank.  This bill established a national bank.

     USDEBT   Vote on funding the United States' debt.  The purpose of this bill was 
              to assume the national debt.  The roll call votes tabulated here are on 
              amendments that deferred the interest on new stock for 10 rather than 7 years 
              and paid 3% rather than 4% interest.

    GSS files. The data in the 2 files named GSS91POL.SAV and GSS91SOC.SAV are 
    subsets of the General Social Survey data for 1991.  This survey was conducted
    for the National Data Program for the Social Sciences at the 
    National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago.  
    The data are distributed by The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research 
    at the University of Connecticut.  A codebook giving the exact questions 
    asked is available from
 
    The Roper Center, Box 440, Storrs, Connecticut 06268.

    Each of the 2 files contains data on the same 1500 cases, a random
    sample from the complete data set for 1991.  This sample meets the
    1500-case limitation of SPSS for Windows Student Version.
    
    Some variables are the same in both files.

    In variable labels, R stands for Respondent.

    In value labels
      NAP represents "Not applicable"
      DK represents  "Don't know"
      NA represents  "No answer"



   GSS91POL.SAV
     The political file contains 1991 GSS survey results on a variety of current 
     national issues in addition to demographic data for the respondents.  Most of 
     the variable labels give enough information for you to figure out what questions 
     were asked.  Following are the exact questions asked for selected variables:

     POLHITOK  Are there any situations you can imagine in which you would
               approve of a policeman striking an adult male citizen?

     POLESCAP  Would you approve of a policeman striking a citizen who was
               attempting to escape from custody?

     GENEJOB   Should employers have the right to give genetic tests to
               people who are applying for a job?

     HELPBLK   answers 1. Government is obligated to help blacks.
                       5. Government shouldn't give special treatment.

     NATARMS...NATSPAC  Are we spending too much, too little, or about the
               right amount on...  [item named in the variable label]

     FEAR      Is there any area right around here--that is, within a
               mile--where you would be afraid to walk alone at night?

     SATCITY   How much satisfaction do you get from the city or place you live
               in?

     SCHLPRAY  In your opinion, should there be daily prayers in all public
               schools?

   GSS91SOC.SAV
     The social science file contains 1991 GSS survey results of interest to
     students of various social sciences in addition to demographic data for the 
     respondents.  Most of the variable labels give enough information for you to 
     figure out what questions were asked.  Following are the exact questions
     asked for selected variables:

     FEWORK   Do you approve or disapprove of a married woman earning money
              in business or industry if she has a husband capable of supporting
              her?

     FEPRES   If your party nominated a woman for President, would you vote
              for her if she were qualified for the job?

     RACDIF1  On the average (Negroes/Blacks) have worse jobs, income, and
              housing than white people.  Do you think these differences are mainly
              due to discrimination?

     RACPROMO Do you think your race or ethnic background makes your
              promotion opportunities better or worse?

     RACPRES  If your party nominated a (Negro/Black) for President, would
              you vote for him if he were qualified for the job?

     WIRTAP   Everything considered, would you say that in general you
              approve or disapprove of wiretapping?

     ABHLTH   Please tell me whether or not YOU think it should be possible
              for a pregnant woman to obtain a LEGAL abortion if the woman's own
              health is seriously endangered by the pregnancy.

     ABRAPE   Please tell me whether or not YOU think it should be possible
              for a pregnant woman to obtain a LEGAL abortion if she became
              pregnant as a result of rape.

 
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