Getting Quartiles with SPSS 6/16/2018 Getting Quartiles with SPSS

To Open the Data Set into SPSS 6/16/2018 To Open the Data Set into SPSS Open SPSS In the Data Editor, Select Open then Select Data  you get the Open Data window In the Open Data window specify the File Type as Excel indicate the directory on your laptop where the customer.xls file is located hit OK You get an Opening Excel Data Source window  hit OK Wait for SPSS to get the data Adjust the width of the columns “GENDER” and “STATE”

To Get the Quartiles using SPSS 6/16/2018 To Get the Quartiles using SPSS We will do it for the frequency variable PURCH In the Data Editor, Select Transform then Rank Cases  you get the Rank Cases window In the Rank Cases window Select the PURCH variable in the top left panel Click on the top arrow to transfer it to the top right panel In the bottom left panel, select whether to assign Rank 1 to the largest or to the smallest value Hit the Rank Types button on the upper right  hit OK Select NTiles and enter 5 Deselect all the other options and hit CONTINUE Then hit OK You obtain a new column in SPSS called NPURCH which contains the quartile index for PURCH