Working with Likert scales in SPSS I performed a survey using a Likert 1 to 5 scale (totally agree/agree/neutral/ disagree/totally disagree) on 12 questions which are split into 3 statements which the respondent places a value of between 1 to 5 dependent on how much they agree or disagree - there are 36 statements in total.
Respondents:
Group 1                          Group 2
architects UK   140 replied      Architects US   100 replied
engineers UK    140 replied      Engineers US    100 replied
Contractors Uk  140 replied      Contractors US  100 replied

The data is in Excel.
Questions:


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*How do I input them in SPSS?

*How do I work out the frequency of replies for each recipient?

*How do I work out frequency of replies i.e agrees/disagrees etc for each group?

*How can I rank each individual question (12 of them)? Remember, there are 3 individual statements to each question.

*How do I compare UK architects to US architects to show congruence or not?

*How would show correlation between the two groups UK and US?

*Will SPSS develop graphs etc for me showing frequency or correlation?

 A: 1. How do I input them in SPSS?
You can open an Excel file in SPSS.
Use the standard file open option, and select file type = *xls.
Try to ensure that the first row has the variable names.
2. How do I work out the frequency of replies for each recipient?


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*Do you mean the frequency of responses for each question?

*Check out the menu Descriptive Statistics - Frequencies
3. How do I work out frequency of replies i.e agrees/disagrees etc for each group?


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*Check out Descriptive Statistics - Crosstabs
4. How can I rank each individual question (12 of them)? Remember, there are 3 individual statements to each question.


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*Rank them in terms of what?

*If you intend to rank each question in terms of their mean (e.g., on a one to five scale). One way would be to run Descriptive Statistics - Descriptives and get the mean for each item. Then copy and paste the table of item means into Excel and sort by the Mean column.


5. How do I compare UK architects to US architects to show congruence or not?


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*Check out Descriptive Statistics - Explore; you could also look at some of the compare mean options.


6. How would show correlation between the two groups UK and US?


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*These are different participants so I don't know what you mean by asking for correlations.


7. Will SPSS develop graphs etc for me showing frequency or correlation?


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*Yes, it will.

*Just have a play around with the Graphs menu (e.g., Legacy - Scatter or Legacy - Bar)


General Suggestions
It sounds like you need a basic book explaining how to use SPSS.
A good one is the SPSS Survival Manual.
I also wrote a 120 page PDF Introduction to SPSS several years back which explains all the things mentioned above with examples.
