News archive - [Event Announcement] Second Data without Boundaries Training Course: Working with data from official statistics in Europe
Data without Boundaries organizes in cooperation with Eurostat a series of three day training courses on integrated Eurostat datasets which will take place in Romanian Social Data Archive at the Department of Sociology (University of Bucharest, Romania) on February, 13–15 2013.
This second course is particularly focussed on the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and will be hosted by the Romanian Social Data Archive at the Department of Sociology (University of Bucharest, Romania). Other partners involved in this course are GESIS (Mannheim, Germany), UK Data Archive (Essex), Réseau Quetelet (Paris), Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (Paris) and Eurostat (Luxembourg).
The course is aimed at post graduate and senior researchers from throughout Europe who are seeking to conduct research on the basis of the EU-SILC. Besides highlighting the legal and administrative aspects of data access the course demonstrates the possibilities of the EU-SILC in a hands-on computer sessions which explores the potential for both international as well as longitudinal analysis by using multivariate statistical methods and SPSS/Stata.
Interested parties should send a short application letter (max. 500 words) explaining their motivations to participate in this course to 2nd-dwb-training@gesis.org. Deadline for applications is 15 January 2013.
Participants have to cover their own expenses for travel and accomodation. Attendance of the course is free.
Outline is available here.
More information is available here.
Dates: 13-15 February 2013
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2013
Location: Romanian Social Data Archive at the Department of Sociology (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Contact: http://2nd-dwb-training@gesis.org
Source: email by Dr. Heike Wirth, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
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- Cross-thematic/Interdisciplinary
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DwB - trainingcourse.pdf (pdf, 70.23Kb)
Entry created by Danaja Lorencic on November 21, 2012
Modified on November 21, 2012
