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Complex Analysis Plan for PUMS using SPSS?

John J. Green
over 8 years ago
Does anyone have recommendations for setting up a complex analysis plan in SPSS for analyzing ACS PUMS data? I am trying to help a group of master-level graduate students analyze 2014 5-year ACS PUMS data, and they need to use SPSS, given that is what is available for our lab. They want to be able to calculate the appropriate standard errors for their hypothesis tests. I have been combing the web to find recommendations, but I just keep finding posts for STATA, etc. with the note that SPSS cannot be used. Surely, there are folks using SPSS. Does anyone have recommendations?
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  • over 8 years ago
    To the best of my knowledge, SPSS Complex Samples still does not support replicate weights which are required for the analysis of PUMS data (successive difference replication). May be you can write your own macro to do this, but it will be still be confusing to the students.

    Any of Stata, R, SAS or even WesVar can be used for the task (or at least tricked with specification of BRR or jackknife weights). Unfortunately, SPSS is out of the league... as the web was pointing out to you.
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  • over 8 years ago
    To the best of my knowledge, SPSS Complex Samples still does not support replicate weights which are required for the analysis of PUMS data (successive difference replication). May be you can write your own macro to do this, but it will be still be confusing to the students.

    Any of Stata, R, SAS or even WesVar can be used for the task (or at least tricked with specification of BRR or jackknife weights). Unfortunately, SPSS is out of the league... as the web was pointing out to you.
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