Role of SPSS in Social Sciences

Sankalp Kohli

Abstract: SPSS is a combined package of software which is a set of statistical package for the social science research. The primary application of this program is to explore the technical data which have relevance with social science. These data can be utilised for survey research, market analyzation etc. The benefits of the package area unit its relative simple use, its familiarity to several applied math consultants and its practicality. Statistics is that the body of mathematical techniques or processes for gathering, describing, organizing and decoding numerical information. With the use of SPSS, the researcher can properly analyse the activities and views of people in a analytical method. Presently, various educational institution, medical Sciences institutions, academicians, import-export organizations etc have been using SPSS for fulfilling different objectives. The researcher can easily understand the demand for a product in the market with the help of statistical analyzation which can change their strategy. Primarily, SPSS is a useful package which is designed in such a way to handle the large quantum of variables within a short period of time by using different technical commands to produce a set of suitable outputs. All forms of statistical analysis can be easily taken up in the full package software which can convert the quantitative data into qualitative analysis. The primary purpose of this proposed work is to explore the utilization and significance of SPSS in the field of social science. SPSS is software which is widely used for quantitative research method specially to develop the explanation of social science research in to an analytical way. The SPSS Corporation initially created the SPSS software system package in the early 1980?s and has recently discharged version eleven. It is presently one among the foremost usually used applied math packages in Australian analysis establishments and is obtainable in any respect of Australian universities. The benefits of the package area unit is its relative simple use, its familiarity to several applied math consultants and its practicality. The package is developed for variety of in operation systems together with Windows and UNIX operating system. Data concerning SPSS product is obtainable on-line at web.SPSS.com.

Keywords: Social Science, Statistics, SPSS