You can download the GSS from 1972 to 2002 at Berkeley's SDA archive: http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502/archive.htm
You can download raw data, or produce tables on the site.
If you want an SPSS data file, you have to choose the year(s) you want and the variables you want. The extraction tool downloads a raw data file, and builds an SPSS syntax file that defines the data. Once you have chosen all your variables, you just need to run the syntax file that defines the data from within SPSS, and then yes, you have an SPSS data file (.sav).
It's a two step process, but once you get the hang of it, the longest and hardest part is choosing from the massive number of variables!
Good luck,
Linda Derksen, Ph.D.
Malaspina University-College
At 06:52 PM 8/25/2005, Walter Dean wrote:
Speaking of raw GSS datasets, where can I find them to download. If such files can be downloaded, can they be saved as SPSS (.sav) files?
Walter Dean
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- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Del Thomas Ph. D.
- To: Linda Derksen
- Cc: [email protected]
- Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 7:23 PM
- Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: GSS
- I have not used the raw GSS. Instead I have used the GSS put out by MicroCase. This data analysis engine is so user friendly that
- students can concentrate on the concepts rather than the tedium.
- I recall in the old days hours were lost because I did not place a "." in the correct place. I started my dissertation on the main frame
- then was able to do work off site with on line connection to the main frame. Now the whole thing could be done on my note book.
- Too late for me but great for students.
- In my view the MicroCase system blows the other's door off, including SPSS. I can't understand why everyone doesn't use
- it.
- Del
- Linda Derksen wrote:
- I think the GSS is now every other year, with a core set of questions asked of all, and a subset that are only asked of some of the sample. There was one conducted in 2004, which NORC says should be available in early 2005:
- http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/projects/gssnews2004.pdf
- all the best,
- Linda
- At 08:53 AM 8/23/2005, James Cassell wrote:
- And for free from UC Berkeley's SDA Archive: http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502/archive.htm
- Cheers,
- James
- who truely marvels that people lived in Arkansas before the invention of air conditioning...
- -----Original Message-----
- From: John Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Sent: Aug 23, 2005 10:06 AM
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
- Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: GSS
- By GSS do you mean General Social Survey done by The Roper Center? If so,
- the latest is 2002, more or less continuous since 1972, some times every
- year and sometimes every other year. The web site is
- http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/gss.html The data is also available
- from Penn State American Religion Data Archive at www.thearda.com and
- through ICPSR at University of Michigan.
- John Eby
- >>> "John Glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/23/2005 10:51:57 AM >>>
- is 1993 the last time the GSS was conducted?
- thanks
- john
- John E. Glass, Ph.D.
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- has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would
- suffice.
- - Albert Einstein
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