Follow these links to access the user guide pages.
Prepare data for analysis:
- Download data files
- Convert data (SPSS, or text in case of PISA prior 2015), print LSA data, select PISA countries
- Merge study data files from different countries and/or respondents
- Variable dictionaries (name, class, variable label, response categories/unique values, user-defined missing values)
- Data diagnostic tables
- Recode variables
- Cut continuous variables into discrete categorical
- Aggregate variables
Perform analyses:
- Percentages of respondents in certain groups and averages on variables of interest, per group
- Percentiles of variables within groups of respondents
- Percentages of respondents reaching or surpassing benchmarks of achievement
- Crosstabulations of discrete variables
- Correlations (Pearson or Spearman)
- Linear regression
- Binary logistic regression
Other:
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