I have spent the past few weeks leveraging learnings from SPSS courses and have finally scrubbed all of my data using best practices. Phew!!! It took a good deal of time and was somewhat annoying to duplicate some previous efforts, but I now have a much stronger foundation to perform future analysis. Also, because I am using Syntax I can now easily track and change any of the analysis. Woohoo!!
On Tuesday, I had a very useful video conference with a Henley Quantitative Methodology expert and have two important next steps. First, return to the literature and summarize relevant methodology use in one document so that I am crystal clear. This will also be essential for citations in my thesis. Second, have a conversation with my supervisor about some of the issues that I am having related to unit of analysis and sample size for some of my questions.
I am feeling very positive and confident about my analysis right now. I plan to enjoy it while it lasts!!