Certificate Course on
Survey Methods
and Data Analysis -
Illustrations with HIES |
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Organized by
Economic Research Group
and
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
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COURSE OUTLINE |
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Day 1:
July 24,
2010 (Saturday) |
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Session 1.01: 9:00 – 9:30 Registration
and welcome Tea
Session 1.02 : 9:30 – 10:00 Formal
opening of the workshop
09:30 - 09:40 DG, BBS Welcome note (10 min)
09:40 - 09:50 CC, ERG Welcome and course description (10 min)
09:50 -10:00 ZHS Giving away of HIES 2010-11 questionnaire to
participants
Session 1.1 10:00-11:20 Overview of
surveys and datasets available in Bangladesh – user perspective.
Resource Persons: Sajjad Zohir (ERG)
11:.20-11:40 Short discussion on group assignment
Resource Persons: Sajjad Zohir (ERG)
Session
1.2 11:50-13:10 Surveys
and historical overview of HIES – producer perspective
Resource Persons:
Shamsul Alam (BBS)
Session
1.3 14:00-15:00
Introduction to SPSS leading to developing a program file+
exercise
15:00-16:00 Introduction to Stata leading to developing program
file + exercise
Resource Persons:
Anik Ashraf (ERG)
Session
1.4 16:00-17:00 AA
Accessing HIES datasets using SPSS and Stata; and developing
data inputting format in SPSS (use HIES 2010-11)
Resource Persons:
Anik Ashraf (ERG) |
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Day 2:
July 25, 2010
(Sunday) |
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Session 2.1-2.2 10:00-13:10 FA Sampling
in theory and practice – will cover HES/HIES, 1995-96 to 2010-11
Resource Faizuddin Ahmed, (BBS)
Session 2.3 14:00-15:00 What may or
may not be inferred – how does sampling matter?
Resource Persons: Dr. Sajjad Zohir (ERG)
Session
2.4 15:00-17:00 AA Practice: SPSS
and Stata; Basic operations and beyond (include sampling as
well) use of sample weights
Resource Persons:
Anik Ashraf (ERG) |
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Day 3: July 26, 2010 (Monday) |
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Session 3.1 10:00-12:00 Survey methods –
illustration from HIES
Resource Jahidul
Hoque Sarder (BBS)
Session 3.2 12:10-13:00 Illustrations of
questionnaire design in HIES-practical experiences
Resource Persons: Shamsul Alam (BBS)
Session3.3
1400-1500 Role of prices and implications of survey designs for
capturing income, consumption, and expenditure
Resource Persons: Dr. Sajjad Zohir (ERG)
Session
3.4 15:00-17:00
AA/TI Practice: Questionnaire design (participants’ examination
of HIES 2010-11, queries and suggestions) Ideally,
developing a full fledged questionnaire here. |
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Day 4: July 27,
2010 (Tuesday) |
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Session 4.1 10:00-12:00 ZHS/TI Survey
management and quality control in HIES
Resource Persons: Jahidul Hoque
Sarder (BBS)
Session 4.2 12:10-13:10 Incentives and data
quality – various trade-offs in data collection; and the issue of
ownership
Resource Persons: Sajjad Zohir (ERG)
Session
4.3-4.4 14:00-17:00 Translating
questionnaires into datasets, cleaning, validation and calculation -
illustrations with HIES 2010-11 |
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Day 5: July 28, 2010
(Wednesday) |
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Session 5.1-5.2 Poverty measures: theory
and at practice in HIES; and poverty estimates
Resource Faizuddin Ahmed, (BBS)
Session 5.3 SZ Changes
in estimation methods and updating of base years – implications
for reading the trends
Resource Persons:
Sajjad Zohir (ERG)
Session 5.4 AA/TI
Further exercises with HIES data using SPSS/STATA – poverty
estimates and beyond |
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Day 6: July 29, 2010
(Thursday) |
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Session 6.1-6.2 10:00-13:00 BS Other Uses
of HIES data
Resource Persons: Binayak
Sen (BIDS)
Session 6.3-6.4
14:00-17:00 TI/AA Supervised Practice Session)
14:00-15:00 Parallel discussion with individual groups on
presentation
Resource Persons:
Sajjad Zohir (ERG) |
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Day 7: July 30, 2010
(Friday) |
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Session
7.1-7.2 10:00-12:30 TI/AA Independent group work
Session
7.50 18:00-21:00 Closing Session
18:00-20:00 Group Presentation (3/4 persons X 6 groups)
20:00-20:45 Use of official statistics
Resource Persons:
Wahiduddin Mahmud
20:45-21:00 Certificate awarding ceremony (Wahiduddin Mahmud,
Secretary, Statistics Division,
Course Coordinator and DG, BBS)
21:00-22:00 Dinner |
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FA - Faizuddin
Ahmed, Ex-BBS and Consultant, World Bank
SZ - Sajjad Zohir, Director, Economic Research Group
SA - Shamsul Alam, Project Director, BBS
ZHS - Zahidul Hoque Sardar, Coordinator of HIES
TI - Tahidul Islam, BBS
AA - Anik Ashraf, IGC and ERG Associate
BS - Binayak Sen, Research Director, BIDS |
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