SPSS procedures for comparing Means
The individual procedures available for conducting mean comparisons can be found under the Compare Means
group within the Analyze
menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

Starting with Means
and progressing through One-Way ANOVA
(the summary procedure will not be covered, since it is based on a Python add-on), the statistics available for evaluating mean differences become increasingly sophisticated. In addition, each of the techniques offers specialized statistics suited to the task they are designed to perform.
The Means procedure
The examples in this chapter will use the 33-variable subset of the General Social Survey data from 2016 that was the basis for the examples in Chapter 3, Statistics for Individual Data Elements, Chapter 4, Dealing with Missing Data and Outliers, and Chapter 10, Crosstabulations Patterns for Categorical Data. Open the SPSS data file you created earlier (or download and open the full GSS2016 following the steps in Chapter 3...