ASSESS: SPSS USERS' GROUP, 25th ANNUAL MEETING
FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2011
UNIVERSITY OF YORK, YORK, UK

The 25th annual meeting of ASSESS, the SPSS Users' Group, was held on Friday, 28th October 2011 at the Alcuin Research Resource Centre (ARRC) in the Dept. of Health Sciences, University of York. ASSESS is an independent user group for SPSS, a computer package for analysing and presenting data. It is run by users, for users and is completely independent of manufacturers of the software. The meeting is open to all users of SPSS and to anyone interested in SPSS. Postgraduate students pay a reduced registration fee.

A provisional programme is available in word format and also in pdf format for your convenience, now including the booking form. Booking forms can also be downloaded separately in word and pdf format.

Come along to:

• hear SPSS users talk about applications,the problems and solutions
• hear the latest news from SPSS UK staff about product developments,and put your questions to them
• question a panel of experts about particular problems
• exchange ideas with other SPSS users
• plan for an even better user group and suggest events for 2012

• SPSS version 20 latest news, software demonstrations & ASSESS event ideas

• Which women are having a hysterectomy and why? A plain English presentation of the methodology and findings from a database linkage study in SPSS using Hospital Episode Statistics and National Cervical Screening Records by Helen Stokes-Lampard, University of Birmingham, in ppt format and in pptx format

• Handling dirty data by Roger Stafford National Centre for Social Research

• Manipulating files: an application to multilevel data from the football World Cup  by Chris Stride, University of Sheffield

• The GP Patient Survey - Managing the largest healthcare study in the UK  by Peter Deacon & Vishen Thumbadoo, Ipsos Mori, in ppt format and in pptx format

• New algorithms in R for high dimensional contingency tables (callable from SPSS) by Susana Conde, University of Limerick

• The pros and cons of using SPSS as a research tool to explore individual differences  by Sophie von Stumm, Goldsmiths College, in ppt format

• How to utilise SPSS when dealing with governmental (and NHS) data by Tassadaque Masood, NHS Supply Chain, in ppt format

Registration and coffee begins at 10am. Papers and other events will run from 10.30am to about 5.00pm. Morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea are included in the registration fee. A timetable will be e-mailed to delegates in advance of the meeting - a provisional program, including booking form, can be downloaded in PDF format and Word format.