The New Zealand Tourism Research Institute (NZTRI) conducted a virtual workshop on Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) for the Tourism Authority of Kiribati (TAK) and Planning Division of the Ministry of Information, Communication, Transport and Tourism Development (MICTTD) on 21 July 2021.
This was a third of a series of capacity building workshops on online survey design, distribution, collection, and data analysis and is part of Phase 2 of the Pacific Tourism Data Initiative (PTDI) funded by New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFAT).
The goal of the PTDI is to increase evidence-based tourism decision making in the Pacific with a view to strengthening sustainable economic development.
The participants were taken through the basics of SPSS interface to understand how to use SPSS and perform tasks such as data cleaning and transforming variables.
The SPSS workshop was a follow on from workshops 1 in April 2021 (Designing Surveys) and 2 in May 2021 (Online survey software – Qualtrics).
