You may be required to use SPSS, Stata, SAS, or R by your instructor, department, or advisor. But, there are many other options that you can use on your own computer.
But, there are other options:
- Jamovi *Recommended* - Free, Open Source point-and-click software built on R, can open SPSS, Stata, and SAS files.
- PSPP - Free, Open Source implementation of the basic SPSS abilities (including basic ANOVA and Regression)
- Qualtrics - Has some rudimentary tools that may be sufficient for some purposes, see below.
- Excel - This can be appropriate for small, simple datasets that need descriptive statistics
- Note that it is not necessary to use numbers to represent categories (just type the category name consistently).
- Definitely learn how to use the Table and Pivot Table functions.
- We do NOT recommend using Excel for doing analysis (ex. p-values)
Qualtrics' Tools
You can do many types of analysis and visualization through Qualtrics if you used it for data collection.
- Basic one-variable graphs - See Results
- Simple Qualitative coding/tagging - See Text IQ
- Examining Relationships