question about skewness and kurtosis

[psychologygirl]

I am in the process of screening my data. I ran the analyses on skewness and kurtosis and was wondering how one determines the significance of these statistics? Are there common cutoffs one uses? Any information would be most welcome. Thanks!

[Dr.D]

You can use the cutoff of -1 to +1 for the values; values within this range are safe in terms of being normal, those outside are skewed.

Or you can take the value divide by the respective standard error, and if the value is less than 2.00 then the variable is normal, if larger then the variable is skewed.