Survey Methods: Traditional and New Techniques in Official Statistics
Code 439PP
Credits 6
Learning outcomes
Course description and Objectives:
Survey Sampling is an introductory course for graduate students who have not had a previous course in survey amplino and have the objective to improve the ability to criticize the main features of a strategy of statistical data collection and analysis.
Course outline/summary:
Overview, What is a Survey, Questionnaires and Interviews, The Survey Form: Questions, Scales, and Appearance, Sample Size and Response Rate: Who and How Many; Probability and Non Probability Sampling Methods; Nonresponse: Implementing a Sample Design
Major Issues in Choosing a Strategy of Data Collection and in the Description of the Results.
Learning methods: Lectures, readings (papers, chapters, case studies), class assignments in computer lab using worksheets.
Survey Sampling is an introductory course for graduate students who have not had a previous course in survey amplino and have the objective to improve the ability to criticize the main features of a strategy of statistical data collection and analysis.
Course outline/summary:
Overview, What is a Survey, Questionnaires and Interviews, The Survey Form: Questions, Scales, and Appearance, Sample Size and Response Rate: Who and How Many; Probability and Non Probability Sampling Methods; Nonresponse: Implementing a Sample Design
Major Issues in Choosing a Strategy of Data Collection and in the Description of the Results.
Learning methods: Lectures, readings (papers, chapters, case studies), class assignments in computer lab using worksheets.