 In SOFA statistics, you can either enter data by hand or you can import it from a spreadsheet program. You might wonder why you would ever want to enter data by hand. If you've given a survey on paper or you need to enter the results of an observation that you did in the field, entering data by hand could be your best choice. To enter data by hand, click Enter Edit Data. You can then add a new data table by clicking New. Enter the name for your data table. In this case, Survey will be a reasonable name. Now you can start designing what goes into your data table. The first field is going to be the gender, so instead of R001, type Gender. That's going to be a letter, not a number, so go to the Data Type column and select Text. The next field will be for the age, so click the empty field name and type Age, then tab over and select Numeric. Click outside the menu and then press Tab to create another field. You don't want the height in feet and inches as separate fields, so you'll combine them into the total height and inches. Enter the field name Height, which is numeric, and I got that quickly by pressing the letter N. Click outside, press Tab, and now the next is the number of pairs of shoes, so the field name is Shoes, and the field type is also numeric. The field for the favorite color, which we'll call Color, is going to be Text, so I'll select Text from that field, and the last two questions are coded as Numbers, so the fields Campus and Pets should both be numeric. Make sure you press Tab to create an empty row, or your last field won't get into the table design. Finally, click Update. You'll see a message that your new table has been added to the default SOFA database. When you click OK, you can start entering your data. I'll enter a couple of rows just to show you how that works. I enter the gender for the first person, M, and use Tab to move from field to field. The person's age was 23. His height was 5'7", so I convert that to 67 inches total. The number of pairs of shoes he had was 10. His favorite color was red. He thought the Campus was very beautiful, which scored 4 points, and agreed, but not strongly, that everyone should own a pet. That was scored as a 3. When I press Tab, it immediately goes to the next row. The next person was a female, who has aged 22. She was 5'3", 63 inches total. She owned 14 pairs of shoes. Her favorite color was green. She liked the Campus a little, but disagreed that everyone should own a pet. Again, make sure that you press Tab at the end of every line, so that the data gets entered into the table. To save your changes, all you do is click Close. And then when you're done with that, you click Close again, and you now have a data table entered by hand, ready for you to use.