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Dear
Colleague,
We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to attend the
following courses:
1.
Essentials
of Survey Design and Implementation
2.
Methods
for Missing Data
3.
Survey
Data Analysis 1: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
1.
Essentials
of Survey Design and Implementation (Held in Edinburgh 29th – 31st
October 2008):
o
This
course taught by Dr. Pamela Campanelli focuses on the design and
implementation
of quantitative social surveys.
o
Topics
include project management, quality, ethical and reporting issues; guidelines
for understanding interviewer vs. self-completion implementation concerns;
ways
to minimise nonresponse before it happens;
probability vs. non-probability sampling designs; calculation of the necessary
sample size; introduction to sampling error, non-sampling error, and weighting
procedures; and principles of data coding and
processing.
o
The
focus of the course taught by Dr James Carpenter will be on methods to adjust
for item nonresponse in sample surveys, which
occurs
when some survey participants choose not to answer certain questions in the
survey.
o
The
course will have a strong practical focus with regular computer sessions to
consolidate the ideas presented in the lectures, and to gain experience with
the various methods.
o
This
course taught by Dr Gabriele Durrant aims to develop an
understanding of the basic principles of statistical analysis and to enable
participants to employ appropriate methods of presenting data in research
reports and papers. Topics include descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, setting up and
testing of hypotheses, graphs and tables and their interpretation, t-tests,
analysis of variance (ANOVA), chi-square test. Practical computer workshops
will be used to analyse sample survey data with the computer package
SPSS.
Teaching is interactive and
responsive to course participants' needs. All courses include practical
sessions or computer workshops to enable participants to put the learned
methods into practice.
The course
fees are as follows:
£25 per day for UK-registered students.
£50 per day for staff from
£195 per day for all
other participants.
Please note that spaces are limited. If you have any
further questions please contact us at [log in to unmask]
or look at our website www.southampton.ac.uk/cass
Best
wishes
Your CASS
team