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Introduction to using linked administrative data for social and health research
Edinburgh
8th – 12th October, 2018
The five-day course will offer a theoretical and practical introduction to accessing and working with linked administrative data.
Audience
Interested in using linked administrative data in your research but don’t know what data is out there, how to access it, or if you have the skills to do this type of analysis? If you are a social or health researcher with experience of analysing survey data, or if you already work with administrative data but want to analyse multiple administrative datasets linked together, then this course is for you.
Course Outline
The course will give an introduction to administrative data, describing what it is, some of the particular problems in working with this type of data and how to deal with this. Theoretical sessions will be backed up by hands-on practical sessions, using R or Stata to write syntax to tidy, clean and recode data; link datasets; manipulate data; conduct data visualisation; document workflow; identify data quality issues; and fit regression models . The Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) synthetic data will be used in the practical exercise.
There will be sessions on: indexing, linking and joining datasets; working with dates and times; descriptive and inferential statistics for administrative data; and methods for dealing with missing data. There will also be sessions on how to apply for access to linked data, and secure data access within a safe setting, as well as the ethical, confidentiality and disclosure issues around using this type of data. A data showcase session will give a flavour of the type of data that is available. Current researchers will highlight their research using linked administrative data and describe the advantages of this approach, as well as the problems they have encountered and the lessons learned.
By the end of this course participants will have the skills to identify, access and prepare linked administrative data for analysis.
Cost
• PhD student: £250 (travel support will be available)
• Other: £500
For enquiries contact: email: [log in to unmask]; tel: 0131 651 7847
To register, please follow the link: https://www.adrcscotland-training.info/2018-5-day-course.html
Zhiqiang Feng
Administrative Data Research Centre Scotland
University of Edinburgh
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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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