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Both SPSS and Stata are available; use whichever you are more comfortable with. Stata has some significant advantages over SPSS but none are show-stopping and SPSS is arguably easier to learn; however, for serious work SPSS needs to be operated using syntax which is no easier to learn than Stata's.