 Here, we'll look at producing some basic descriptive statistics and histogram charts, appropriate to scale data variables. In the menu, click on Analyze, Descriptive Statistics, Frequencies. And you'll see the Frequencies dialog. This is a typical SPSS dialog with a column of variables, a blank column on the right that will be our selected variables. And click on the Reset button at the bottom to have a fresh start. The Scale variables are denoted with an icon that is a yellow ruler. Here, I'll select one scale variable by dragging it across from the left column to the right column. And then I'll choose Statistics from the Statistics button. For Scale variables, we can use Mean, Mode, Medium. We can use Quartiles, Standard Deviation, Range and Variance. And click on Continue. Next, click on the Charts button. The chart appropriate to scale variables is Histogram. And we can choose to show a normal curve superimposed on the Histogram. Click on Continue. It's usually not useful to have a frequency table for a scale variable, partly because there will be far too many rows, one for each response. Using the Mean and the Standard Deviation are much more useful in statistical analysis. Click on OK. And the Viewer window will show a statistics box for each variable with the statistics and the number of valid responses. And then Histogram.