
This publication was created as part of the project “Strengthening capacities of Parliament’s administration to prepare and evaluate public policies based on data analysis.” Data collection and processing are essential prerequisites for the preparation of a solid foundation for the development of appropriate and effective public policies. The first step toward this is to make data available, and the second is to process them in a high-quality manner.
This manual has been developed to meet the needs of researchers within the Research Department of the Parliament of Montenegro, providing them with a simple and practical guide for using one of the most popular software packages for data analysis and processing, SPSS (officially known as IBM SPSS Statistics). We believe it will also be valuable to other researchers in the public and non-governmental sectors, students, and anyone involved in empirical analyses of social processes.