Measurement scale	Variable name	values	max & min value	made up values for 10 people
nominal	employment status	unemployed, employed, retired	n/a	green, brown, yellow, red, violet, black, white, pink, orange, blue
ordinal	education level	high school diploma, associate degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctorate degree	doctorate degree - high school diploma	bachelor's degree, bachelor's degree, doctorate degree, associate degree, high school diploma, bachelor's degree, associate degree, master's degree, high school diploma, master's degree
interval	IQ test score	60-76, 77-92, 93-108, 109-124, 125-140	140 - 60	120, 69, 115, 75, 94, 83, 85, 106, 111, 98
ratio	height in centimeters	n/a	Min.: 0 Max.: + (infinity symbol)	152, 155, 158, 160, 163, 165, 167, 170, 172, 175

Find SPSS on a computer and open it.

1. When it opens you should see an SPSS data set
2. Notice that the data set has two options at the bottom: variable view and data view
3. Click on variable view - this is where you will define each of your variables in SPSS
4. In variable view, define each of your four variables by specifying the
   1. Name
   2. Type
   3. Decimal places if your variable might have decimals
   4. Label you'd like to display in your output for that variable
   5. For your nominal level variable, the Values that your variable can take
   6. Measure (type of - scale, nominal or ordinal)
5. Switch to data view for the next step - notice that your variables are now listed at the top of the columns
6. Now put in the values you assigned to each of your 10 people from Part I. In this step, you simply type in each cell going down each column/variable, the number that each of your 10 people produced for THAT variable.(For your nominal data use, the value you defined, not necessarily the name you labeled that value)
7. Send image of SPSS data set when you're done.