1. How to import a file from Excel to SPSS - be sure to Save As your Excel 2007 file in the Excel 97-2003 Workbook, because SPSS is not capable of importing Excel 2007 format files. Practice Excel workbook with three different worksheets. We will use Independent Sample T-Test on the data. 2. How to recode variables - it is usually best to recode variables into a different variable. 3. Link to cntry15.sav SPSS data set. Link to country.sav SPSS data set. 4. How to do variable and value labels. 5. How to run basic stats - chi-square, t-test, ANOVA, correlation, regression. 7. The URL to get the SCL (Statistical Consulting Lab) home page is: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/SCL 8. Send email to: jacobson@cs.uni.edu if you want to make an appointment for help on your research in the future.