Hi there,

Can anyone explain to me if it is also possible to compute
correlations between a nominal and an ordinal variable in spss. How do
i do this? And second when you got the correlation results is it also
to describe the relationship.

So lets say i would like to get a correlation between gender(nominal)
and an ordinal variable. How do I see wether or not the correltion is
positive/negative for male/female when I give male the code "1"and
female the code "2" since nominal variabales do not indicate ranking?

Thanks

Hopefully this will help....and you should be able to navigate if your
version of SPSS is not consistent
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/output/corr.htm