The document provides a step-by-step guide on how to create and manage data files in jamovi, including creating new data, adding or deleting variables, and entering values. It outlines procedures for importing data, conducting descriptive statistics, and computing new variables. Additionally, it includes instructions for filtering data and outputting results in various formats for reporting.

1. To create data file in jamovi
• To create new data in jamovi
• Click ‘new’ from main menu
• Keep the cursor on column 1 and double click then name of the
variable in data variable box and change the measure and data type,
do the same process for other variables.
• Enter the values
• Continue the same procedure for all the variables
• To insert or remove any row or column, click variable icon and choose
add or delete option.
• To enter values for the new variables, type values in the column
• Click main menu for saving the data file by clicking ‘save as’ option

2. • For computed variable, click data and click compute
• Type new variable name in the name box of the create computed
column
• Click Create Column
• Select the function and type the formula in the computed column box
• Click compute column

3. Filtering data
• Click filter icon which is available in the top menus
• Type required condition in the box
• To see the row values click eye icon
• To remove filter, click ‘X’ button
• To get original data, click filter icon

4. Importing data file and labelling
• 1. Save data file in excel .csv format
• 2. To import excel into jamovi, use following option
• Main menu – open –browse – and select your file from the particular
folder
• 3. convert the variable type according to its nature by keeping the
cursor on the variable type icon
• 4. If it is nominal or ordinal then give labels for each value by clicking
variable name
• 5. Change all statement variables into scale type
• 6. To save, main menu – save as – computer and save into folder

5. Descriptive Statistics
• Click Analyses -> Exploration -> Descriptives
• Bring Nominal Variables into Variables Box
• Click Frequency tables under Tables Option
• For Barplot, click Bar plot under plots option
• For Pie chart, include jjStatsPlot click pie chart option under
Categorical vs Categorical option
• To copy and paste it into word file, click tables and diagrams
• Do same procedure for diagram

6. Mean and SD
• To find univariate measures,
• Click Analyses -> Exploration -> Descriptives
• Bring scale variable into variables box
• Click transpose descriptive table
• Select measures from Statistics option.
• To compute new variable, click variables menu and select compute
option

7. Creating nominal variable from scale variable
• Find quartiles for the scale variable using Analyses -> Exploration ->
Descriptives
• Then create new variable LEVEL using if