Advanced: Complex Sample Survey Design / ABS and DSS Confidentialised Datasets

Course description

One part of this course aims to present a range of confidentialised datasets which are available through university arrangements with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (CURFs) and Department of Social Services. It focuses on the importance of familiarisation with technical manuals before undertaking analyses of secondary data. The second part aims to introduce complex sample survey designs and undertake practical exercises of analysing the data obtained from such designs. 

The course is aimed to be practically oriented with extensive use of the IBM SPSS and Stata statistical packages. 

The details of the connection to the Web Conference will be emailed to enrolled participants a day before the course and again an hour before the event. Please contact stats.consultant@flinders.edu.au if you have any questions relating to this course.

Type of course

Web conference

Presenters

Who should attend

Staff and Research Higher Degree Students

What you will learn

• What ABS and DSS confidential datasets are available and what procedures are involved in obtaining access to the data
• Accessing and interpreting the technical manuals that come with the secondary datasets
• Alternatives to simple random sampling
• Concepts of stratification, clustering and sampling weights
• Example of preparing a two-stage cluster sampling framework
• Examples of undertaking analyses using IBM SPSS Complex Samples and Stata

Prerequisites / assumed knowledge

Preferably participants should attend Introduction to SPSS, Introduction to Stata, Introduction to Statistical Analysis and Intermediate: Understanding Your Data and Checking Assumptions (or have an understanding of concepts/skills covered in the listed above courses) before enrolling in this workshop.