Please find below a list of short courses in statistics held by CCSR, University of Manchester.
Courses cost £175 per day, and £125 for those from educational institutions.
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STARTING SPSS
16th September 2009
The course provides a thorough introduction to SPSS for Windows (Version 16), a market leading software package for survey data analysis. The course includes a strong practical element in which participants learn and gain experience under the guidance of course tutors.
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/spss/
INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS PART 1
17th September 2009
This course provides an introduction to the theory and methods of quantitative data analysis, focussing on the social survey, with a focus on the use of cross-tabulation to explore the relationship between categorical variables. It has a heavy emphasis on hands on learning, with a series of practical sessions using the statistical software package SPSS to explore a Government dataset.
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/ida1/
INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS PART 2
18th September 2009
This course provides an introduction to the theory and methods of quantitative data analysis for interval variables, focussing on the techniques of correlation and linear regression.
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/ida2/
INTRODUCTION TO STATA
21st September 2009
The course provides an introductory training in STATA, a statistical package increasingly used for social research data analysis which has powerful data manipulation procedures and extensive and powerful statistical capabilities.
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/stata/
QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN
22nd September 2009
Rubbish in, rubbish out - have you ever discovered too late that your survey questions did not deliver useful or useable data? Through looking at a wide range of pitfalls, this course explores ways to assess the effectiveness of existing questionnaires as well as how to write successful new ones. It combines suggestions from the research literature on questionnaire design with a very practical approach. Common errors in the wording of individual questions are examined as well as how to combine individual questions into a meaningful questionnaire. Special features for interview versus self-completion surveys will also be discussed.
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/questionnaireDesign/
COGNITIVE INTERVIEWING FOR TESTING SURVEY QUESTIONS
23rd September 2009
This one day course is designed to familiarise participants with this powerful and efficient method of piloting survey questions called Cognitive Interviewing. Cognitive Interviewing is a type of in-depth interviewing which focuses on respondents' thought processing in answering survey questions and uses specialised techniques such as thinking aloud, probing, observation and paraphrasing. The course is about what cognitive interviewing is as well as how to do it. There are practical exercises as well as lecture time.
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/congnitiveInterviewing/
STANDARDISED MULTI-ITEM SCALE DEVELOPMENT FOR SURVEYS
24th September 2009
Standardised multi-item scales are very common in psychology, education, and health, but much less so in sociology, political science, and survey research. This one day course is designed to inspire participants from all disciplines that it is possible to develop your own high quality multi-item scales. This course offers an introduction on how to do this: looking at psychometric principles, exploring the special questionnaire design concerns, introducing some basic statistical tools for assessing the reliability and dimensionality of multi-item scales, and practice evaluating some existing scales in a lab session at the end of the day.
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/standardised/
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