The book is intended as a working tool for anyone involved in empirical social research who already has basic knowledge of using SPSS. The goal is to translate typical questions of empirical social research into suitable evaluation concepts and to be able to process them using the statistical software package SPSS. For each evaluation method, the statistical fundamentals are first explained in an application-oriented manner, and then the steps of working with SPSS are demonstrated using a practical example with real data; processes of data transformation are also explained. Datasets are available for download on the internet.