st: Fw: Contingency tables etc. in Stata and SPSS

["John F Hall" <johnfhall@orange.fr>]

Greetings from a newbie to the list (but an Old SPSS Dog)

Just been browsing round the Stata site to see if I can find any comparisons 
between Stata and SPSS for simple procedures like frequency counts and 
crosstabs.  I'd like to display parallel examples of syntax and default 
output.  I found one or two articles in the Stata Journal, but the kind of 
tables I'm looking for are not there.  The ones I found (but some were quite 
old) were:

jann@soz.gess.ethz.ch <jann@soz.gess.ethz.ch>
Tabulation of multiple responses
Stata Journal Volume 5 Number 1: pp. 92-122

david.harrison@icnarc.org
Stata tip 20: Generating histogram bin variables
Stata Journal Volume 5 Number 2: pp. 280-281
Stata tip 34: Tabulation by listing
Stata Journal Volume 6 Number 3.

st: RE: Percentages in cross-tabulation
 a..
   a.. From: "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
 b.. Re: st: Percentages in cross-tabulation
   a.. From: Edwin Leuven <leuven@fee.uva.nl>
I've been using SPSS since 1972 and am a regular contributor to 
SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU .  From recent postings it seems many universities 
are now switching to Stata because of the cost of SPSS (there is a fierce 
debate on the list about the IBM/SPSS business model and some heart-breaking 
appeals from longtime users of SPSS: "Inexpensive 'home' version") and I 
want to investigate its capabilities for the kind of work I'm doing.

Since September last year, have been developing a new website.  Journeys in 
Survey Research is in two sections: one for survey research and one for 
SPSS/PASW, but with other stuff as well.  The survey side has (not easily 
available, if at all) materials from my time as Senior Research Fellow at 
the SSRC Survey Unit 1970-76 (UK) particularly working papers, reports etc 
from the Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life) surveys conducted by 
the late Dr Mark Abrams and myself in association with the late Prof Angus 
Campbell (ISR): other material is from my time as Director of the Survey 
Research Unit at the then Polytechnic of North London 1976 - 1992 (now part 
of London Metropolitan University).

The SPSS/PASW section contains extensive (gentle step-by-step with full 
screenshots at each step) syntax-based tutorials (converted and updated from 
SPSS-X 4 for a Vax mainframe under VMS to SPSS for Windows on a PC) from the 
postgraduate (part-time, evening) Survey Analysis Workshop I developed and 
taught from 1976 to 1992, when I took early retirement.  There are many SPSS 
courses around, but they are mostly statistical: mine is about survey 
research, different and possibly more fun.

All materials are available for free download.

If anyone can point me in the direction of any Stata output like the tables 
and other materials on my website, I'd be grateful., also for feedback on 
ease of use and understanding.

Regards

John Hall
http://surveyresearch.weebly.com

PS  The opening greeting is a reference to Old Dog, Old Tricks: presentation 
and slide-shows covering survey analysis before SPSS, history and 
development of SPSS, uses and abuses of SPSS in major surveys, syntax versus 
GUI and replication of exercises from Julie Pallant's SPSS Survival Manual
(Annual conference of ASSESS,  SPSS users in Europe, University of York, 
2006)




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