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2nd DwB Training Course – EU SILC (13-15 February 2013)

2nd DwB Training Course
Working with data from official statistics in Europe – EU-SILC
13-15 February 2013, Romania

Data without Boundaries (DwB) organizes in cooperation with Eurostat a series of three day training courses on integrated Eurostat datasets.

This second course is particularly focused 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. For further information please contact Christof Wolf.

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: 2nd-dwb-training@gesis.org

More Information can be found here:
http://www.dwbproject.org/events/tc2.html

DwB-Training Course: Working with data from official statistics in Europe particularly the European Labour Force Survey

Mannheim (Germany), 18-20 July, 2012

Data without Boundaries organizes in cooperation with Eurostat a series of three day training courses on integrated Eurostat datasets.

This first course will particularly focus on the European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) and will be hosted by GESIS (Mannheim); other partners involved in this course are 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- LFS. Besides highlighting the legal and administrative aspects of data access the course will demonstrate the possibilities of the EU-LFS in a hands-on computer session which will explore the potential for both international as well as longitudinal analysis. A basic understanding of multivariate statistical methods and SPSS/Stata will be required.

The course will consist of the following three parts:

Part I: Overview of European Data from Official Statistics Part II: The EU-LFS: Content, documentation, data structure, analysis Part III: Accessing confidential national microdata

Interested parties should send a short application letter (max. 500 words) explaining their motivation to participate in this course to 1st-dwb-training@gesis.org. Deadline for applications will be June 15th, 2012. For further information see attachment or contact christof.wolf@gesis.org

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