Centre for Applied Social Surveys
Short Course:
Survey Data Analysis III
Supported by the ESRC
Christos Korovessis and Nyovani Madise
2-4 April 2003, University of Southampton
CASS is an ESRC Resource Centre hosted by
the National Centre for Social Research, the University of
Southampton and
the University of Surrey
Course Objectives
• To introduce participants to multivariate statistical
methods for analysing survey data.
• To provide hands-on experience of analysing data
using the statistical package SPSS.
Course Content
This course will include the following topics:
• Logistic regression
• Multinomial logistic regression
• Principal component analysis
• Factor analysis
The course will include computer practicals so that
participants can work through exercises.
Target Audience
The course is aimed at researchers who need to analyse
survey data, especially those in the social, economic,
educational and medical sciences. Participants should
already be familiar with basic statistical theory including
inference and multiple regression.
Pre-requisites:
This course is a follow on from Survey Data Analysis II,
15-17 January 2003. Participants on this course must have
prior statistical knowledge covering inference and
regression modelling (up to the level of Survey Data
Analysis II).
Course Materials
Participants will receive course notes.
The Instructors
Christos Korovessis is a senior statistician at the National
Centre for Social Research. He specialises in survey data
analysis using large and complex survey datasets as well as
sampling and weighting. He has worked as a visiting
lecturer with the Social Statistics Research Unit and
Sociology Department at City University London, and the
Department of Politics at Queen Mary and Westfield
College.
Nyovani Madise is the CASS Lecturer in the Social Statistics
Department at the University of Southampton. She
specialises in the statistical analysis of large survey data.
She has taught courses on multivariate data analysis and
generalised linear models at both undergraduate and
masters levels. Prior to joining the University of
Southampton she worked as a Lecturer in Statistics at the
University of Malawi.
Fee:
£400 (includes course materials, lunches and morning and
afternoon tea). Because of ESRC support, a number of
bursaries are available which reduce the fee to £85 -
applicants must be full-time students, UK academic staff or
ESRC-funded researchers.
Location:
The course will be held at the University of Southampton.
During the course participants may be contacted via the
Department of Social Statistics (Tel: 023 80593048, Fax: 023
80593846).
Duration:
The course will begin with registration at 9.30 a.m. on
Wednesday,
2nd April and end at 3.30 p.m. on Friday, 4th April 2003.
For further details:
Jane Schofield
Department of Social Statistics
University of Southampton
Building 58
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Tel: 02380 593048
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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