Stata Vs Spss. Poli sci psych or econ. Spss is having the classical approach for measurement levels.
I personally did my first degree in quantitative economics of makerere university and i have always felt at home using both stata spss tools. Spss by ibm stata by statacorp view details. Your question about which is better is easy.
On the other hand stata is the best tool to perform powerful linear regression models.
I personally did my first degree in quantitative economics of makerere university and i have always felt at home using both stata spss tools. For this nominal variable an internal variable and ordinal variable are the major parameter used by spss. All these variables called the metric variables. The scripting languages especially in spss are arcane and very limited you can actually do advanced modern stuff but you d feel right out of the 1970s doing it.