Running the Analysis

  1. To perform the weighting adjustment, from the Data Editor menus choose:

    Data > Weight Cases...

    Figure 1. Weight cases dialog box
    Weight Cases dialog box with Final person-level sample weight selected as the weighting variable
  2. Select Weight cases by.
  3. Select Final person-level sample weight as the weighting variable.
  4. Click OK.

    Now the data are weighted and are ready to be analyzed. To begin the Means analysis, from the menus choose:

    Analyze > Compare Means > Means...

    Figure 2. Means dialog box
    Means dialog box with a dependent variable and independent variable specified
  5. Select Age when first smoked a cigarette as the dependent variable.
  6. Select # Cigarettes smoked per day past 30 days as the independent variable.
  7. Click Options.
    Figure 3. Means Options dialog box
    Options dialog box for a Means analysis
  8. Select Anova table and eta and Test for linearity.
  9. Click Continue.
  10. Click OK in the Means dialog box.

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