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Day 1 (Monday, 16 January 2006) |
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Hours |
Session
Description |
Instructor/Speaker |
Venue |
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1400 – 1415 |
Opening Remarks and introduction |
Hafiz GA Siddiqi, Ainun Nishat, Sajjad Zohir, Atiqur Rahman |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
Session # 1
1415 – 1530 |
Policy, research issues and research methods - illustrations
on linkages from the Water Sector in Bangladesh.
Participants will be introduced to research undertakings in
the water sector, relevance of socio-economic research in
decision-makings on the sector, important areas of future
research, and on the various non-economic/social aspects
(engineering/ technical issues) that socio-economic research
in the sector should account for. |
Ainun Nishat |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
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1530 – 1600 |
Tea |
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Session # 2
1600 – 1730
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Basic Statistics (data and data structure, graphical and
tabular representation of data, summarizing
data: working with various averages/measures of location,
and the nuances they may generate, and measures of
dispersion)
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Sajjad Zohir |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
Session # 3
1730 – 1900 |
Introducing the Data Sources in Bangladesh - emphasizing on
education, population, health, poverty/ household
income-expenditure, and national/macroeconomic data. |
Naser Farid |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
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Day 2 (Tuesday, 17 January 2006) |
Session # 4
1400 – 1530 |
An Overview of
Economic Research in Bangladesh, with an introduction to
preparing research proposals |
Sajjad Zohir |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
Session # 5
1530 – 1700 |
Introduction to the basics of qualitative research; and analysis of data -
with emphasis on qualitative data analysis
using statistics and basic tools in quantitative data
analysis |
Sajjad Zohir |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
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1700 – 1730 |
Identification of selected topics, and formation of Groups
over tea |
Participants and Instructors |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
Session # 6
1730 – 1900 |
Introduction to computers, working in excel environment.
Introduce data structure and techniques to generate tabular
and graphical results from the data. Exercises on basic
statistics with Bangladesh data. |
Touhid-uz-Zaman/ Naser Farid |
Database Lab, NSU, 9th Floor
Star Tower |
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Day 3 (Wednesday, 18 January 2006) |
Session #7
1400 – 1530 |
Survey instruments and Administering Field Surveys |
Sajjad Zohir |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
Session # 8
1530 – 1700 |
Undertaking research based on secondary data - illustrations
from various research undertakings.
Three illustrations will be provided on processing secondary
data to make these amenable for analyses. |
Syed Mainul Ahsan |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
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1700 – 1715 |
Tea and informal exchanges |
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Session # 9
1715 – 1845 |
Appreciating the needs of research types and techniques -
illustrate with specific real problems encountered by
policymakers and managements/task masters - and in the
process, introduce various techniques and their uses and
abuses |
AK Enamul Haque |
STR 1102,
NSU,
and/or Database
Lab, NSU, 9th Floor
Star Tower |
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Day 4 (Thursday, 19 January 2006) |
Session # 10
1400 – 1530 |
Computer session - introduce SPSS and work with exercises |
Md. A Hakim & Mehnaz Rabbani |
Database
Lab, NSU, 9th Floor
Star Tower |
Session # 11
1530 – 1630 |
Computer session -brief introduction to Stata and follow up with
exercises with statistical packages of participants' choice |
Md. A Hakim & Mehnaz Rabbani |
Database
Lab, NSU, 9th Floor
Star Tower |
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1630 – 1700 |
Tea and group exchanges |
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Star Tower,
NSU |
Session# 12A
1700 – 1800 |
Dealing with macro data - illustrations |
KM Jamshed uz Zaman |
STR 1102,
NSU
and Database Lab,
Star Tower |
Session# 12B
1800 – 1900 |
Group Session |
KM Jamshed uz Zaman, Naser Farid, MA Hakim, M Rabbani |
STR 1102,
NSU
and Database Lab,
Star Tower |
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Day 5 (Friday, 20 January 2006) |
Session# 13A
1000 – 1100 |
Analysis of Food and Agriculture Price Data |
Naser Farid |
STR 1102,
NSU and Database Lab,
Star Tower |
Session# 13B
1100 – 1230 |
Group Session |
KM Jamshed uz Zaman, Naser Farid, MA Hakim, M Rabbani |
STR 1102,
NSU
and Database Lab,
Star Tower |
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1230 – 1430 |
Lunch and prayer |
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Session # 14
1430 – 1630 |
Group Exercises with data and preparations for group presentations |
KM Jamshed uz Zaman, Naser Farid, MA Hakim, M Rabbani |
STR 1102,
NSU
and Database Lab,
Star Tower |
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Day 6 (Saturday, 21 January 2006) |
Session # 15
1000 – 1230 |
Group Exercises with data and
preparations for group presentations |
MA Hakim, Sajjad Zohir, KM Jamshed uz Zaman, Naser Farid |
STR 1102,
NSU and Database Lab,
Star Tower |
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1430 – 1600 |
Group presentations |
Participants |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
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1600 – 1700 |
Policy-Research linkages - overview of research agenda |
Wahiduddin Mahmud |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
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1700 – 1730 |
Awarding of Certificates |
Hafiz G.A. Siddiqi and Wahiduddin Mahmud |
STR 1102,
NSU
Star Tower |
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